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About AIMSweb TEL Test of Early Literacy

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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