Assessment Tools
Phonemic Awareness Assessment Tools
It is best to assess children individually and frequently throughout the year. Explicit systematic instruction can then take place in small groups according to student need.
Recognizing Rhyme Assessment
Here are two different versions of the Rhyming Assessment tool:Recognizing Rhyme Assessment
(No QuickTime movie)Recognizing Rhyme Assessment
QuickTime movie version: Watch Patti do a demonstration of the rhyme assessmentPhoneme Blending Assessment
(No QuickTime movie)
Phoneme Blending Assessment(QuickTime movie version: Watch Patti demonstrate the assessment
Phoneme Segmentation Assessment
(QuickTime movie version: Watch Patti demonstrate the assessment.
Concepts About Print
Concepts about Print Assessment
No QuickTime version
Concepts about Print Assessment
QuickTime version: Watch Patti demonstrate the assessment
Students should be assessed to find out which letters and sounds of letters they can name.
A tool for assessing individual students so that they can be grouped according to instructional needs.
The Learning Record is an open record of literacy achievement, K-12, maintained and monitored by the classroom teacher to provide evidence that students are moving toward agreed upon goals and standards.
Spelling Development
These two tests, the primary and elementary spelling inventories,
are designed to assess the word knowledge elementary students have to bring
to the tasks of reading and spelling.