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Assessment of Literacy and Language (ALL)

Author: Linda J. Lombardino, R. Jane Lieberman, and Jaumeiko J. C. Brown
Date Published: 2005

Receptive Vocabulary -- Student must point to a picture that best represents a dictated word. Words increase in difficulty.

Parallel Sentence Production -- The teacher describes a picture using certain grammar, then the student describes a similar picture using the same grammatical structure the teacher did. This is a test of syntax and morphemic knowledge.

Word Relationships -- Student must describe why pairs of words are related (e.g. SUN and HOT).

Rhyme Knowledge -- Student must determine whether two words rhyme, decide which word out of a set of words does not rhyme, produce a rhyming word when given a prompt, and complete a sentence with an appropriate rhyming word.

Sound Categorization -- Student must decide which word out of a set of words does not begin with the same sound (phoneme) as the other words.

Elision -- Student must omit part of a compound word (e.g. teacher says "cowboy," and student replies with "cow."

Letter Knowledge -- Student must correctly identify letters (by name, by pointing to them, and by writing them).

Phonics Knowledge -- Student must identify the sounds (phonemes) that typically correspond to letters and letter clusters. Student must also correctly pronounce simple nonsense-words.

Invented Spelling -- Student must write dictated words using appropriate spelling-sound conventions.

Book Handling -- Student demonstrates just the most basic knowledge of concepts about print (e.g. parts of a book, direction of reading)

Concept of Word -- Student demonstrates more advanced concepts about word boundaries and identifies (without decoding) specific words.

Matching Symbols -- Student must match identical pairs of letters or numbers as well as clusters of letters.

Sight Word Recognition -- Student must correctly identify words in a graded list.

Rapid Automatic Naming -- Student must quickly identify pictures of familiar objects.

Word Retrieval -- Student is given a category, and must think of as many words as possible that fit that category in one minute (e.g. "Name all of the food items you can think of.").

Listening Comprehension -- Student must retell important details from a story, and also answer comprehension questions about the story.