Informal Tests for Diagnosing Specific Reading Problems

by Pavlak, Stephen A.

• ISBN13: 9780134648019
• ISBN10: 0134648013
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1984-12-15
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

This resource provides over 70 ready-to-use informal diagnostic tests and other evaluative aids to help reading specialists and classroom teachers identify students' individual reading problems in order to prescribe effective corrective or remedial instructions. These diagnostic aids cover the basic skill areas of phonic analysis, structural analysis, and comprehension at primary and intermediate levels, as well as survival reading skills at the intermediate and upper levels.

Author Biography

Stephen A. Pavlak, Ph.D., has taught and supervised reading on both the elementary and secondary levels. As a reading supervisor, he organized a complete diagnostic and remedial reading program in his own school district.Since 1971, Dr. Pavlak has been on the faculty of the California University of Pennsylvania, where he presently serves as a chairperson of the Elementary Education Department and teaches in the Reading Program. He also serves as a consultant to public and private schools on the development of reading programs and has participated in many reading and language arts programs on the local, state, and national levels.Dr. Pavlak earned his M.Ed. degrees in Elementary Education and Reading from the California University and his Ph.D. with a major in Reading from the University of Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

About This Book of Diagnostic Reading Aids	v
SECTION 1 INFORMAL READING INVENTORIES
Informal Phonic Analysis Inventories	3	(1)
Teacher's Guide	3	(3)
Individual Phonic Analysis Test Record	6	(1)
Checklist of Specific Skill Weaknesses--Phonic Analysis	7	(17)
Letter Discrimination--Upper Case	9	(1)
Letter Discrimination--Lower Case	9	(1)
Recognizing Initial Letters in Words	10	(1)
Recognizing Final Letters in Words	10	(1)
Recognizing Medial Letters in Words	10	(1)
Recognizing Rhymes in Words	11	(1)
Recognizing Word Family Rhymes	11	(1)
Matching Initial Sounds in Words	12	(1)
Matching Final Sounds in Words	12	(1)
Matching Medial Sounds in Words	12	(1)
Matching Two-Letter Blending Sounds and Consonant Digraph Sounds (Initial Position)	13	(1)
Matching Two-Letter Blending Sounds and Consonant Digraph Sounds (Final Position)	13	(1)
Matching Three-Letter Initial Blends	14	(1)
Matching Vowel Sounds (Includes Digraphs and Diphthongs)	15	(1)
Recognizing Consonant Blends and Digraphs (Initial Position)	16	(1)
Recognizing Consonant Blends and Digraphs (Final Position)	16	(1)
Marking Vowels Long and Short	17	(1)
Recognizing Y as a Consonant and as a Vowel	18	(1)
Applying Vowel Rules	19	(1)
Applying Vowel Rules	20	(1)
Applying Vowel Rule Exceptions (Part I)	21	(2)
Applying Vowel Rule Exceptions (Part II)	22	(1)
Matching Words with the Sound of C	23	(1)
Matching Words with the Sound of G	23	(1)
Matching Words with the Sound of S	23	(1)
Marking Nonsense Words According to Vowel Rules	24