Assessing Phonemic Awareness
Name two tests commonly used to assess phonemic awareness in children.
Can these tests be administered to groups?
Briefly describe each of these tests of phonemic awareness.
What information do these tests provide regarding reading performance?
Notes:
What is phonemic awareness?
Insight or understanding that every spoken word can be conceived as a sequence of phonemes . Phonemes are the units of sound represented by the alphabet an awareness of phonemes is a prerequisite to understanding the logic of the alphabetic principle, leads to the learning of phonics and spelling.
Yopp-Singer phoneme Segmentation Test
Given words student asked to break them apart. Assesses simple phonemic awareness
Bruce Phoneme Deletion Test
Asked what word remains when a specific letter is deleted. S -t- and (sand)
Assesses compound phonetic awareness