Administer the PAST Phonological Awareness Skills Test

 to inform instruction or as a verification of phonological proficiencies:

PAST Assessment

http://msjocelynspeech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/caseb_scene1_2.pdf

PAST Individual Recording Form

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PAST Tracking Individual Progress Form

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Readers Statements for Instruction:

•  Readers know words are spoken.
•  Readers know sentences are made of words. 
•  Readers listen for words that rhyme. 
•  Readers know words that rhyme.
• Readers listen to syllables and blend them into words.
• Readers listen to a word and say the syllables.
• Readers blend onset and rime into words.
• Readers blend beginning, middle, and ending sounds into words.
• Readers listen to words  and tell when a sound has been deleted.
• Readers listen to words  and tell when a sound has been substituted.
• Readers listen to words  and tell when a sound has been added.

2.0 retrieval

read words with common irregular vowels (variant vowels, diphthongs, r -controlled).

3.0 retrieval

• read multi-syllabic words and words with inconsistent spelling-sound correspondence within text.

2.0 retrieval

identify, from a list, words with long vowel sounds.

3.0 retrieval

read words with long vowels in text. (e.g. final -e: a_e, e_e, i_e. vowel teams: ay, ai, ea)

2.0 retrieval

identify words with common endings (-ing, -ed, -s), prefixes (pre-, re-, un-, be-, in-) suffixes (-er, -y, -est, -ly).

3.0 retrieval

read two syllable words with long and short vowels, words with common prefixes, suffixes, and endings within text.

• read one syllable words within text.

2.0 retrieval

show the correct way to hold and handle a book, title of a book, front of a book and the back cover of a book where the print is on the page using the prompts:

• “Show me the front cover.”
• “Show me the back of the book.”
• “Show me the title of this book or story.”
• "Show me how to turn pages."
• "Show me where the words are on the page."
• 3.0 retrieval
  
• recognize print on a page goes from left to right, top to bottom, page by page, and where to begin to read using the prompts:
  
  • “Show me where I start reading.” (beginning of text)
  • “Show me with your finger which way I go as I read this page.” (Left to right, top to bottom)
  • “Show me where I go next?”(return sweep)

• match the sound of the digraph and blend to a picture.