Welcome to the Comprehensive Center-Region VI

Audio Web Conference Workshop

Sheryl Beglinger

Training and Outreach Specialist

       

Phonics Assessments

Informal Assessment

Alphabet Charts

Beginning Phonics Tests

• Letter sound identification

• TEAM materials– Phonics Inventory

• DIBELS– Nonsense Word Fluency

Invented Spelling

“How children handle phonics patterns in inventive and conventional spelling ought to be one powerful indicator of the phonics knowledge that they access when they read.”

Gentry, Richard J. “A Retrospective on Invented Spelling and a Look

Forward.” The Reading Teacher. 54 (November 2000): 318-332.

Group Test for P/A

• Test of Invented Spelling – Provides information about students’:

• ability to segment phonemes• knowledge of the alphabet• understanding of letter sound

correspondences

Invented Spelling Tests

• “Camel Test”*– January of 1st grade, have children spell camel, a word

in the children’s spoken vocabulary but probably not a developed sight word

• If child knows how to spell “camel: correctly, try “eagle”, “bacon”, or “magic”

– If they write “c-a-m-l” or “e-g-l” or “b-a-k-n” or “m-a-j-e-k”, they are likely to have phonemic awareness and also able to match letters to phonemes

*Gentry, Richard J. “A Retrospective on Invented Spelling and a Look Forward.” The Reading Teacher. 54 (November 2000): 318-332.

Method for Scoring Invented Spelling* Characteristics of spelling Example

of spellings

Score

One phoneme accurately represented other than initial phoneme

t 1/2

Initial phoneme accurately represented f 1

Initial phoneme and one other phoneme accurately represented

ft 2

Initial phoneme and two or more other phonemes accurately represented

fot

flt

3

Word is phonologically accurate flot, flote 4

*Lane, H. B., Pullen, P. C., Eisele, M. R., & Jordan, L. (2002). Preventing reading failure: Phonological awareness assessment and instruction. Preventing School Failure, 46, 101-111.

Invented Spelling Test

Primary & Elementary Spelling Inventories

Names Test

Cunningham, P. (1990, October). The names test: A quick assessment ofdecoding ability. The Reading Teacher, 44(2), (pp. 124-129).

Found in A Reading Toolkit

Scoring Names Test Conver Standly Zan Jay Conway Stanley Shaw Zane Anderson

Name InCon InConBl

ConDgr

ShVow

LngVow/VC-e

VowDgr

CtrVow

Schwa

Jay J ay

Conway C o ay

Stanley St a ey

Shaw Sh aw Zane Z ane

Anderson A er o

Graded Word List

“San Diego Quick Assessment”:

found in A Reading Toolkit

Or online at:

Contains two different word lists

Has a little different scoring method

Running Records

• Description

Philadelphia School District

Reading A-Z.com

• Reading Assessment Calculator

Wrap-Up

• Question/Concerns

• Assignment:– Try giving one of the phonics assessments

discussed with 3 students– Read “A Focus on Fluency”

• http://www.prel.org/products/re_/fluency-1.htm