Test of Early Literacy-CBM
Description
AIMSweb® Test of Early Literacy (TEL)
Letter Naming | Letter Sound | Phoneme Segmentation | Nonsense Word
The National Reading Panel (Panel 2000) has identified some critical pre-reading skills that should be assessed in Kindergarten and early Grade 1, including Phonemic Awareness, and elements of Phonics, including letter names and sounds and the ability to read non-real (nonsense) words. The AIMSweb Early Literacy Measures are based, in part, on testing procedures incorporated into DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) that are a downward extension of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM).
AIMSweb TEL Measures are used to identify students at risk for reading difficulties and monitor the progress of all students in Kindergarten and early Grade 1 as they move on the pathway to good reading. The four measures are:
- Letter Naming Fluency - identified frequently as the best single indicator of risk for reading failure
- Letter Sound Fluency - with equal or better predictive ability to later general reading skills than the DIBELS Phonemic Segmentation measure
- Phoneme Segmentation Fluency - the ability to hear critical sounds in the spoken word
- Nonsense Word Fluency - the ability to link the written code with the most common sounds
AIMSweb CBM Measures can be purchased as part of an AIMSweb System or in one of the tabs above.
