FREE ASSESSMENT

The following areas should be assessed in an educational evaluation

• Phonological Awareness – an individual’s Awareness of and access to the sound structure of his/her oral language
• Phonological or Language-Based Memory – ability to recall sounds, syllables, words
  
• Rapid Automatic Naming – speed of naming objects, colours, digits, or letters
  
• Receptive Vocabulary – understanding of words heard
  
• Phonics Skills – understanding of the symbol (letter) to the sound(s) relationship, either individually or in combination with other letters
  
• Decoding –ability to use symbol-sound associations to identify (read – pronounce) words
  
  • Real Words
  • Nonsense Words
• Oral Reading Fluency – ability to read accurately, at a story-telling pace – to facilitate / support comprehension
  
• Single Words
  
• Sentences and Paragraphs
  
• Spelling
  
• Writing
  
• Sentence Level
  
• Paragraph Level