Research indicates that kindergarten screening measures are most successful when they include assessment of the following areas: phonological awareness including phoneme segmentation, blending, onset and rime; rapid automatic naming including
letter naming fluency; letter sound association; and phonological memory, including non-word repetition (Catts, et al. 2015; Jenkins & Johnson, 2008).
phoneme awareness, specifically phoneme segmentation, blending, and manipulation tasks;
letter naming fluency; letter sound association; phonological memory, including nonword repetition; oral vocabulary; and word recognition fluency (i.e., accuracy and rate)(Compton, et al., 2010; Jenkins & Johnson, 2008).
Not exact matches
In a «verbal
fluency» test, for example, the participants had to
name in one minute as many words as possible starting with an assigned
letter, excluding people, places, or numbers.
The daily lessons in all versions contain the same ten skills:
Letter Naming, Rhyming, Onset
Fluency, Blending, Identifying Final and / or Medial Sounds, Segmenting, Adding Phonemes, Deleting Phonemes, Substituting Phonemes, and Language Awareness.
Letter recognition; concepts of print; story retell / listening comprehension; rhyming; phonemes; syllables, receptive language; expressive vocabulary; word reading, pseudoword decoding; rimes, comprehension, passage
fluency; rapid automatic
naming; synonyms; word meanings
Assessments included a standardized reading comprehension test (grades 1 - 6) as well as tests considering
letter -
name knowledge (K - 1), rhyme (K - 1), phonemic awareness (K - 1), word dictation (K - 1), concepts of print (K - 1),
fluency (words correct per minute; Deno, 1985)(1 - 6), and writing (responding to a common prompt)(1 - 6).
Data on kindergarten classroom correlation between
letter -
naming and printing
fluency provided by Sue Fisher, Hawaii.
Our evidence suggests both that printing
fluency confers the ability to
name random
letters more rapidly than 40 per minute6, and that the ability to phonetically write words fluently, possible only after the attainment of
fluency in printing
letters, confers phonemic awareness.