1. UNESCO Institute for Statistics Reading Components in LAMP (Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme) Manuel Cardoso

2. UNESCO Institute for Statistics Emerging readers take the Reading Components assessment Background Questionnaire Filter (17 PDN* items) Locator(PDN) Reading Components <=7 >=8 Booklet 1 or 2 (PDN) *PDN stands for Prose, Documents, and Numeracy, the three domains of LAMP

3. UNESCO Institute for Statistics Reading Components Exercises 1. Vocabulary 2. Digit naming 3. Rapid digit naming 4. Lowercase letter naming 5. Uppercase letter naming 6. Rapid letter naming (lowercase) 7. Word recognition (high frequency words; lowercase) 8. Rapid word recognition (same as previous) 9. Decoding (rare words; non-words) 10. Rapid decoding (same as previous) 11. Sentence processing (oral reading; silent reading, timed) 12. Passage fluency (oral reading; silent reading, timed) 3

4. UNESCO Institute for Statistics Examples of profiles  Non-readers are unable to identify one fifth of the letters in their alphabet.  Incipient letter readers identify between 1/5 and ½ of the letters in their alphabet.  Developing letter readers identify more than half of the letters in their alphabet. “Incipient” and “Developing” categories are then applied to other skills such as sentence comprehension and text comprehension

5. UNESCO Institute for Statistics Thank you! m.cardoso@unesco.org 5