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Assesses  the child’s knowledge of "tier 2"  vocabulary words, meaning words  that are frequently encountered in  text but are not typically used in  daily conversation (Beck,  McKeown, & Kucan, 2002). There  are two formats: Pictures and  Synonyms of Words.

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Assesses the most  basic level of phonics knowledge  (whether students know the names  and sounds represented by the  letters of the alphabet). It is  comprised of two types of items:  recognition of letter names and  recognition of letter sound  correspondences.

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Assesses the ability to listen  and understand grade-level  sentences and paragraphs. This is  accomplished through matching  pictures to make meaning of what  they have heard read aloud.

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Assesses the ability to  blend letters into nonsense words in  which letters represent their most  common sounds. For this subtest,  four items appear on the screen

The student is asked to identify the  non-word that is orally pronounced  by the narrator..

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Assesses if children  are developing fully-specified  orthographic representations of  words. For each item, an array of  letters appears on the screen, and  the computer asks the child to spell  a specific word using those letters

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Assesses two types of items:

Type 1: Beginning sounds which  assess the ability to recognize the  initial, final or rhyming sound in an  orally presented word;

Type 2: Phonemic Blending assesses  the ability to blend up to six  phonemes into a word.

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Assesses  the ability to read and  understand grade-level sentences  and paragraphs. This is  accomplished through matching sentences and pictures and sentence completion tasks.

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the ability to read and  understand grade-level  sentences and  paragraphs

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identifies students’  knowledge of tier 2  words and synonyms

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the ability to read  fluently with  comprehension

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identifies if students  are developing fully-specified orthographic representations of words

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the ability to blend

letters into nonsense  words in which letters  represent their most  common sound

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the ability to recognize  the symbol for the letter name and letter  sound when produced orally

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the ability to listen and  understand grade-level  sentences and  paragraphs

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the ability to recognize  the initial, final or  rhyming sound in an  orally presented word