WJ-IV Achievement Areas: Reading Flashcards
Academic Achievement
Reading Subtests: Compare results from these 2 tests to develop insights into the child’s acquisition of reading skills with and without context of meaning
(1) Letter Word Identification
(4) Passage Comprehension
Broad Reading Subtests: Compare results of these 3 tests to develop insights into the child’s broad reading-writing achievement, including reading decoding, reading speed, and the ability to comprehend connected text while reading; See “Basic Reading Skills”
(1) Letter-Word Identification
(4) Passage Comprehension
(9) Sentence Reading Fluency
Basic Reading Skills Subtests: Compare results from these 2 tests to determine differences bw word identification and phonics skills (pairing sounds with letters); expand from pg 31
(1) Letter Word Identification
(7) Word Attack
Reading Comprehension
(4) Passage Comprehension
(12) Reading Recall
Reading Fluency
(8) Oral Reading
(9) Sentence Reading Fluency
Reading Rate
(9) Sentence Reading Fluency
Reading: (1) Letter-Word Identification
Subtest: requires child to read isolated letters and words orally.
- A measure of reading decoding (sight recognition), including reading readiness skills.
- The items are presented in a list rather than in context. It is not necessary to know the meaning of the words.
- Individuals w/ inefficient or nonexistent strategies for word identification typically have poor performance on this test.
Reading: (7) Word Attack
Subtest: requires the child to read phonically regular and nonsense words orally
- measures aspects of orthographic and phonological coding
- High Performance: knowledge of phoneme (the sounds of spoken language)/ grapheme (the letters and spellings that represent those sounds in written language) relationships is necessary
- Low Performance: may result from poor decoding skills and strategies, lack of fluency, poor auditory processing, or limited phoneme/grapheme knowledge
- Possible cause of the reading problem: impaired decoding
Reading: (4) Passage Comprehension
Subtest: requires the child to read a passage silently, comprehend the information, and provide a missing word
- measure of reading comprehension and lexical knowledge (understanding of words and their uses)
High Performance: modified cloze task requires the ability to use syntactic and semantic clues in comprehending contextual information
Reading: (9) Sentence Reading Fluency
Subtest: requires reading and comprehending simple sentences rapidly
- measures reading speed, automaticity, and rate of test-taking
- Low performance: may be a result of limited basic reading skills, slow perceptual speed,
comprehension difficulties, or an inability to sustain concentration.
Reading: (12) Reading Recall
Subtest: requires individual to read a short story silently and then retells as much of the story as they can
- measure of reading comprehension (a reading-writing Grw ability) and meaningful memory (Glr ability)
Reading: (8) Oral Reading
Subtest: individual reads aloud sentences that
gradually increase in difficulty.
- A measure of story reading accuracy and
prosody, a reading-writing ability (Grw).
- performance is scored for both accuracy and fluency of expression
Reading Subtestes in Standard Battery (Forms A, B, & C)
1: Letter-Word Identification
4: Passage Comprehension
7: Word Attack
8: Oral Reading
9: Sentence Reading Fluency
Extended Battery
12: Reading Recall- Extended
- broad measure of reading comprehension sills and is an aggregate measure of comprehension, vocabulary, and reasoning - and to a lesser extent long-term retrieval
15: Word Reading Fluency
17: Reading Vocabulary
Reading Standard Battery Clusters:
Reading
Broad Reading
Basic Reading Skills
Reading Fluency
