371: Phonics Based Reading & Decoding week 1 Dq 1

San Diego Quick Assessment of Reading Ability

Grade level K-11 Word Recognition Individual testing 10 minutes

WHAT This test measures the recognition of words out of context. Generally, proficient readers read as accurately both in and out of context. This test consists of 13 graded word lists from preprimer to eleventh grade. The words within each list are of about equal difficulty.

WHY Weak readers overrely on context and recognize words in context more easily than out of context.

HOW Begin with a list two or three sets below the student’s grade level and continue until the student makes three or more errors in a list. Present the Student Material word list to the student. Use a paper to cover word lists not being read. Mark errors on the Record form by crossing out each missed word. Mispronunciations can be written down next to the word. When the teacher says “next”, the student should move the paper down and read the next word. Encourage the student to read words that he or she does not know so that you can identify the techniques used for word identification. Wait no longer than five seconds before moving on to the next word.

WHAT IT MEANS Each list completed by the student can be scored as shown below.

Errors/List Reading Level

1 error Independent Level

2 errors Instructional Level

3 errors Frustration Level

Student Reading Level = The student’s reading level is the last grade-level word list in which the student reads eight or more words correctly.

San Diego Quick Assessment – Record Form

Name ___________________ Grade _______ Date _________ Directions: Begin with a list that is at least two or three sets below the student’s grade level. Have the student read each word aloud on that list. Continue until the student makes three or more errors in a list. Reading Levels: One error- independent level; two errors- instructional level; three errors- frustration level. When testing is completed, record the highest level in each of these categories in the spaces below. INDEPENDENT ____________ INSTRUCTIONAL _____________ FRUSTRATION _____________

Preprimer Primer Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3

see you road our city

play come live please middle

me not thank myself moment

at with when town frightened

run jump bigger early exclaimed

go help how send several

and is always wide lonely

look work night believe drew

can are spring quietly since

here this today carefully straight

Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7

decided scanty bridge amber

served business commercial dominion

amazed develop abolish sundry

silent considered trucker capillary

wrecked discussed apparatus impetuous

improved behaved elementary blight

certainly splendid comment wrest

entered acquainted necessity enumerate

realized escaped gallery daunted

interrupted grim relativity condescend

Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11

capacious conscientious zany galore

limitation isolation jerkin rotunda

pretext molecule nausea capitalism

intrigue ritual gratuitous prevaricate

delusion momentous linear visible

immaculate vulnerable inept exonerate

ascent kinship legality superannuate

acrid conservatism aspen luxuriate

binocular jaunty amnesty piebald

embankment inventive barometer crunch

Copyright © 1999 CORE, The Graded Word List: Quick Gauge of Reading Ability.

San Diego Quick Assessment – Student Material

see

play

me

at

run

go

and

look

can

here

you

come

not

with

jump

help

is

work

are

this

road

live

thank

when

bigger

how

always

night

spring

today

our

please

myself

town

early

send

wide

believe

quietly

carefully

city

middle

moment

frightened

exclaimed

several

lonely

drew

since

straight

decided

served

amazed

silent

wrecked

improved

certainly

entered

realized

interrupted

scanty

business

develop

considered

discussed

behaved

splendid

acquainted

escaped

grim

bridge

commercial

abolish

trucker

apparatus

elementary

comment

necessity

gallery

relativity

amber

dominion

sundry

capillary

impetuous

blight

wrest

enumerate

daunted

condescend

San Diego Quick Assessment – Student Material

capacious

limitation

pretext

intrigue

delusion

immaculate

ascent

acrid

binocular

embankment

conscientious

isolation

molecule

ritual

momentous

vulnerable

kinship

conservation

jaunty

inventive

zany

jerkin

nausea

gratuitous

linear

inept

legality

aspen

amnesty

barometer

galore

rotunda

capitalism

prevaricate

visible

exonerate

superannuate

luxuriate

piebald

crunch