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Diagnostic Assessments of Reading -- 2nd Edition

Author: Florence Roswell, Jeanne Chall, Mary E. Curtis, and Gail Kearns
Date Published: 2005

Rhyming -- Student determines whether or not a pair of given words rhyme.

Segmenting Words -- Student must tap once for each syllable in a word.

Identifying Initial Consonant Sounds -- Student must repeat the first phoneme (sound) in a word.

Identifying Final Consonant Sounds -- Student must repeat the last phoneme (sound) in a word.

Auditory Blending -- Teacher reads words aloud with a clear pause between each phoneme, and the student must correctly identify the word.

Naming Capital Letters -- Student must correctly identify capital letters.

Naming Lowercase Letters -- Student must correctly identify lowercase letters.

Matching Letters -- Student must determine whether two letters are identical or different.

Matching Words -- Student must determine whether two words are identical or different.

Writing Words -- Student must correctly write simple, 3-letter (CVC) words from dictation.

Word Recognition -- The student must correctly identify regular and irregular words from increasingly difficult lists of words.

Consonant Sounds -- Student must correctly identify the sounds (phonemes) that correspond to different letters (consonants).

Consonant Blends -- Student must correctly identify the sounds (phonemes) that correspond to different consonant clusters (consonant blends).

Short Vowel Sounds -- Student must correctly identify a variety of different words that all contain the same short vowel sound.

Rule of Silent E -- Student must correctly read pairs of words that differ only in that one has a silent-e ending (e.g. HAT - HATE).

Vowel Digraphs -- Student must correctly identify words that contain a vowel digraph (e.g. MAY).

Dipthongs -- Student must correctly identify words that contain a dipthong (e.g. JOY).

Vowels with R -- Students must correctly identify words that contain R-controlled vowels.

Two-Syllable Words -- Students must correctly identify two-syllable words.

Polysyllabic Words -- Student must correctly identify polysyllabic words.

Oral Reading -- Student must read graded passages of text aloud with accuracy. (Optional: fluency can be assessed by recording the time it takes students to read each passage.)

Silent Reading Comprehension -- Student must read graded passages of text silently, and then must describe what the passage is about (Levels 1 -2) or answer explicit reading comprehension questions (Levels 3 and above).

Spelling -- Words of increasing difficulty are read aloud to the student, and the student must write the words with correct spelling.

Word Meaning -- Words from graded word lists are presented orally, and the student must provide an appropriate definition for each word.