Phonemic Awareness Alphabetic Understanding Fluency Vocabulary Comprehension


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Assessing Phonemic Awareness

  • Phonemic awareness should be assessed from the beginning of kindergarten through the spring of first grade.
  • All students should be assessed a minimum of three times per year to be sure adequate progress toward end of year goals is made.
  • Students who are identified as at risk of reading difficulty should be monitored 1 or 2 times per month to ensure effectiveness of intervention and to allow timely instructional changes.


Phonemic Awareness skills can be assessed using standardized measures. The DIBELS assessment system provides two measures that can be used to assess phonemic segmentation skills, Initial Sounds Fluency (ISF) and Phonemic Segmentation Fluency (PSF). To learn more about the DIBELS assessment system, click here.
 

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