Listen to reader, reading aloud. Describe the reading behaviours:
Text: Meteorites Reading Aloud
Text: The Gift
Text: High Dive
Text: Train

Does a reading difficulty exist?

Using reading tests

Selecting the test

To select the test, decide:

• the reading behaviours you want to test; reading aloud or silently, reading prose or individual words.
• the age/grade levels of the readers.
• the mode of administration you want; to assess readers individually or in groups.

How will you describe the reading performance?

• standardized tests give you norm-referenced descriptions. They either:
  • link a reader's reading score with age and /or grade norms.
  • describe the performance in a percentile rank or stanine score.
  • provide a standard score.
• criterion based tests describe reading in terms of the reading abilities or competencies displayed.