Phonemic Awareness Survey
An oral assessment where students add and delete sounds.
Yopp-Singer
A tool used to determine level of phonemic awareness. Students are asked to identify the sounds they hear in words. Ex. Fish /f/i/sh has three sounds.
Rhyming Assessment
Identify rhyming words. i.e.
- Do dog & hog rhyme?
- Which two word doesn’t rhyme? Or which two do rhyme? dog, hog & can.
- I am thinking of the word “town”. Which word rhymes with town? It is a color. (this is higher level)
Observation notes
- which students are able to participate
- what types of errors that are being made
- in small groups make notation of errors that are made.
What type of assessments can be used to determine phonological awareness?
- Phonemic Awareness Survey
- Yopp-Singer
- Rhyming Assessment
- Observation notes
When assessing for mastery of concepts about print using observation notes…
provides for a quick glance at who may need to be ini small group etc.
When assessing for mastery of concepts about print using a monitoring checklists..
are structured and specific about what a student mastered and didn’t understand with examples.
When assessing for mastery of concepts about print using a concepts of print survey…
the teacher holds a big book and selects a student to come up and point at the title, spine, back cover etc.
Letter Sequencing
Letter Recognition
Students are given cards with the alphabet on them and they must put them in sequence order.
Letter Matching
Letter Recognition
Students match capital letter to lowercase letter.
Assessments for Letter Recognition
- Letter name uppercase
- Letter name lowercase
- Identify letter in text
- Letter sequencing
- Letter recognition
- Letter matching
Assessments for Alphabetic Principle
- Identifying individual sounds (A to Z & short vowels)
- Identify CVC & VC
- Nonsense word identification
- Identify & manipulation of initial, medial and final sounds
- Word recognition
Assessments for Phonics & Sight Words
- sound/spelling assessment (phonics)
- sight word assessment
- dictation of words w/ spelling patterns
- oral fluency assessment
- observation notes
- writing samples
Sound/spelling assessment (phonics)
Which sentence has a mistake? 1. The boy is fast. 2. I have no ch o y c e. 3. The water is boiling. 4. no mistake Student should select #2. This would indicate that they have an understanding of -oy, -oi, spelling. Picking otherwise indicates re-teaching is necessary.
Sight word assessment
the just am special
friend we were do
where am blue one
If student says words incorrectly it indicates which sight words need to be retaught.
Oral Fluency Assessment
- give them a passage to read
- time for 1 min
- cross out mis-said words
- note miscues
Tally number of correct words read in one minute, this number indicates total. Use this total to check against where they should be at grade level wise.
(Use the words that were missed to drive instruction.)
How do we assess for structural analysis skills?
- graphic organizer with affixes
- multiple choice/sound spelling assessment
- writing samples
- observation notes
How do we assess for syllabic analysis skills?
- multiple choice assessments
- -breakdown he syllable, choose the correct breakdown
- -identify open, closed, r and l controlled. - observation notes
- classify syllables
- counting syllables (oral or written)
- identify syllables (oral or written)
How do we assess for orthographic analysis skills?
- sentence editing
- pull anonymous sentence from students work, write on the board and have the whole class edit. - spelling assessment
- multiple choice assessment
- writing samples
- 1-on- review their writing
- peer edit - observation notes
Assessments used for Fluency
- Oral fluency assessment
- Running Record
- Miscue analysis
- Observation notes
- Sight word reading
- Time reading fluency practice
Running Record
- write the title of the book
- level of reading independent or instructional
- number of words in the text
- source passage came from
- write the words that the student read
- record number of errors and self corrections
- record of number of miscues
- finished
- -record accuracy rate
- -error rate
- -self-correction rate
Miscue analysis
crossing off errors and rating self-correction, isolate and use these words for targeted practice
Assessments for vocab
- synonyms & antonyms
- word structure
- context clues
- figurative language
- multiple meanings
- analogies
Assessment for narrative text
- multiple choice/QAR
- independent writing
- book reports
- literature projects
- essay questions/response to texts
