Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic Awareness Assessment
The following assessments for preschool through first grade are provided by Literary Resources, Inc., a company that was created by thirty year veteran teacher, Dr. Michael Heggerty. As a first grade classroom teacher, Dr. Heggerty worked on an action research project on the importance of phonemic awareness in acquiring and mastering sound reading skills. These assessments are designed to be used throughout the school year. The same assessment can be given as a pre-assessment and then as a post-assessment, or a second assessment has been provided to be used at the end of the preschool year. This second assessment asks students to segment and blend with phonemes, and asks students to produce rhyming words. Both assessments are able to provide teachers with baseline data and data at the end of the school year. There is also an assessment provided for second grade and above if it is needed.
The following assessments for preschool through first grade are provided by Literary Resources, Inc., a company that was created by thirty year veteran teacher, Dr. Michael Heggerty. As a first grade classroom teacher, Dr. Heggerty worked on an action research project on the importance of phonemic awareness in acquiring and mastering sound reading skills. These assessments are designed to be used throughout the school year. The same assessment can be given as a pre-assessment and then as a post-assessment, or a second assessment has been provided to be used at the end of the preschool year. This second assessment asks students to segment and blend with phonemes, and asks students to produce rhyming words. Both assessments are able to provide teachers with baseline data and data at the end of the school year. There is also an assessment provided for second grade and above if it is needed.
- Informal Assessment
- Formative/Summative Assessments
- Target Grade Level: Pre-K-1
- This assessment measures phonemic awareness.
- Estimated Completion Time: 15 minutes
- Format: Oral
- This assessment should be administered individually.
| preschool_pa_assessment.pdf |
| kindergarten_pa_assessments.pdf |
| 1st_grade_phonemic_awareness.pdf |
| 2nd_grade_above_pa_assessment.pdf |
Phonemic Awareness Assessment
This assessment was created by early reading specialist, Wiley Blevins. This assessment was published in his book Phonics from A to Z. This assessment measures the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in spoken words and the understanding that spoken words and syllables are made up of sequences of speech sounds.
This assessment was created by early reading specialist, Wiley Blevins. This assessment was published in his book Phonics from A to Z. This assessment measures the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in spoken words and the understanding that spoken words and syllables are made up of sequences of speech sounds.
- Informal Assessment
- Target Age Range: 5-8
- This assessment measures phonemic awareness.
- Estimated Completion Time: 10 minutes
- Format: Oral
- This assessment should be administered individually.
| phonemic_awareness_assessment.pdf |
DIBELS Assessments
The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of early literacy skills from kindergarten through sixth grade.They are designed to be short fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of early literacy and early reading skills. These research-based measures are linked to one another and predictive of later reading proficiency. The measures are also consistent with many of the Common Core State Standards in reading, especially the foundational skills. Listed below are the DIBELS Initial Sound Fluency and Phoneme Segmentation Fluency. You can learn more about DIBELS here. You can access all DIBELS assessments here.
The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of early literacy skills from kindergarten through sixth grade.They are designed to be short fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of early literacy and early reading skills. These research-based measures are linked to one another and predictive of later reading proficiency. The measures are also consistent with many of the Common Core State Standards in reading, especially the foundational skills. Listed below are the DIBELS Initial Sound Fluency and Phoneme Segmentation Fluency. You can learn more about DIBELS here. You can access all DIBELS assessments here.
- Formal Assessment
- Target Grade Level: Pre-K-1
- These assessments measure initial sound fluency and phoneme segmentation fluency.
- Estimated Completion Time: 5 minutes
- Format: Oral
- This assessment should be administered individually.
| dibels_isf.pdf |
| dibels_psf.pdf |
