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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
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Welcome to the Comprehensive Center-Region VI Audio Web Conference Workshop Sheryl Beglinger Training and Outreach Specialist
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* *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 TestConverStandlyZan Jay Conway Stanley Shaw Zane Anderson
Graded Word List “San Diego Quick Assessment”: found in A Reading Toolkit Or online at: Has a little different scoring method Contains two different word lists
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