Online Assessments

The progress assessments that accompany the Discover Intensive Phonics and Reading Horizons software are broader and more powerful than ever before and can now be accessed online! Please take a moment and register for a free 30 day trial of these effective assessment tools.

Progress assessments are given with the help of an administrator, so their results are dependent on the administrator’s listening skills and judgment.

The progress assessments are made up of four components: Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition, Most Common Words, and Word Segmentation. The Online Assessment allows users to assess student knowledge and print a report showing results from all four areas of the test.

Phonemic Awareness

This assessment correlates with five of the seven DIBELS phonologic assessments and also aligns with the framework of the Discover Intensive Phonics program. It contains sections that test:

• Rhyming.
• Identification of syllables.
• Recognition of initial, medial, and final phonemes.
• Phoneme blending.
• Identification of phonemes.

Word Recognition

This assessment provides a fast, accurate calculation of a student’s reading grade level. Ten lists of 20 words each, which correlate to grade levels pre-primer through 12th grade, are provided. Words from these lists are shown for students to read aloud and include words a student should be able to recognize. An administrator will judge whether the student pronounced each word correctly.

The word lists were selected based on similar words used in the San Diego Quick Assessment, Border Test of Reading-Spelling Patterns, Rapid Test, Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT), and the Slosson Oral Reading Test (SORT).

Most Common Words

In this assessment, 40 high-frequency words are shown for a student to read. If the student performs poorly, he will be shown 40 additional words to allow him to improve his score. The purpose of this test is to ascertain student understanding of words encountered frequently in reading.

Word Segmentation

This assessment is divided into two portions of 40 words each. The first 40 words test for recognition of individual phonemes. The second 40 continue that process and also test for mispronunciation based on the phonetic pattern of a word, including silent E, adjacent vowel patterns, and other patterns.

When a word is mispronounced, the test administrator has the ability to identify the individual phonemes missed. Test reports will then contain detailed information on those phonemes as well as the decoding patterns most often misread by the student.

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Phonemic Awareness	Word Recognition	Most Common Words	Word Segmentation