1. Session
Task
Sub-task
Format
Skill tested
Task designer 1
(Reading tests)
Reading: DTWRP
Non-words
paper
Decoding and sight word reading
FRLL
Exception words
Regular words
Word reading
Ability to read a list of words of increasing difficulty
British Ability Scale
Phoneme deletion
computer
Ability to anticipate how a word would sound if one phoneme is deleted
Phonological Assessment Battery 2 2
Orthographic coding
JACKAL
Phonological coding
Digit span forwards
Ability to remember short sequences of digits
Book cover recognition
Assesses book exposure 3
(participants to do task A or B)
Non word reading (part 2)
Assesses a child’s ability to decode letter strings.
Phonological awareness: task A (50 % of pts)
ToPHS: Deletion end sound
Assess the influences of length (short term memory and phonological complexity (quality of representations) on decoding
ToPHS: Deletion beginning sound
ToPHS: Substitution beginning sound
ToPHS: Substitution end sound
Phonological awareness task B (50% of pts)
Non word spoonerisms
Non word deletion
Real word spoonerisms
Tasks in bold will be fed-back to schools, JACKAL: The research group at Aston, DTWRP: Diagnostic test of word reading processes, FRLL: Forum for Research in Language and Literacy