Assessing basic sight vocabulary
Describe what type of information these types of assessment yield as far as reading performance is concerned.
Offer at least two examples of assessing basic sight vocabulary and describe how they are conducted.
Notes:
Sight words refer to words a student recognizes instantly or “on sight”, high frequency words, and phonetically irregular words.
High frequency words - Students should read words to the teacher rather than identifying after read to.
Controversy as to whether to assess in isolation or in context. Context is helpful when the word is some familiarity with unknown word and combines use of context with partial knowledge of s -s correspondences.
To assess in context prepare sentences with high frequency words.
To assess in isolation have students read lists of words out loud.