Assessment Tools

Informal Screeners for Literacy

Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)
Really Great Reading Diagnostic Decoding Surveys
Really Great Reading Phonological Awareness Survey
Phonological Awareness Screening Test (PAST)
Phonological Awareness Screener for Intervention (PASI)
Phonics Screener for Intervention (PSI)
easyCBM Reading
Informal spelling inventories, such as the Words Their Way Qualitative Spelling Inventories
Informal reading inventories, such as the Qualitative Reading Inventory-6th edition
Family Histories
Student Language Scale: Screener for Language & Literacy Disorders
Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI)
System 44 Phonics Inventory
Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System (BAS)
Smarter Balanced Assessment - English Language Arts

Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement-II (KTEA-II) - Letter & Word Recognition and Nonsense Word Decoding subtests Age range: 4:6-90+
Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS) - Nonword reading subtest Age range: 6:0-18:11
Test of Silent Word Reading Fluency-2 (TOSWRF-2)
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-III (WIAT-III) - Word Reading and Pseudoword Decoding subtests
Woodcock Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ-IV Achievement) - Letter/Word Identification and Word Attack subtests

Gray Oral Reading Tests-4 (GORT-4)
Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement-II (KTEA-II) - Word Recognition Fluency, Decoding Fluency, and Silent Reading Fluency subtests
Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS) - Reading Fluency subtest
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-III (WIAT-III) - Oral Reading Fluency subtest
Woodcock Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ-IV Achievement) - Reading Fluency subtest

Gray Oral Reading Tests-4 (GORT-4)
Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement-II (KTEA-II) - Reading Comprehension subtest
Oral and Written Language Scales-II (OWLS-2) - Reading Comprehension scale
Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS) - Reading Comprehension subtest
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-III (WIAT-III) - Reading Comprehension subtest
Woodcock Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ-IV Achievement) - Passage Comprehension subtest

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-5 (CELF-5)
Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language-2 (CASL-2)
Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement-II (KTEA-II) - Listening Comprehension, Oral Expression, and Associational Fluency subtests
Language Processing Test-3 (LPT-3)
Oral and Written Language Scales-II (OWLS-2)
Test of Adolescent and Adult Language-4 (TOAL-4)
Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS)
Test of Language Development - Primary-4 (TOLD-P:4)
Test of Language Development - Intermediate-4 (TOLD-I:4)
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-III (WIAT-III) - Listening Comprehension and Oral Expression subtests
Woodcock Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ-IV Achievement) - Picture Vocabulary and Oral Comprehension subtests

Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement-II (KTEA-II) - Spelling subtest
Test of Early Written Language-3 (TEWL-3)
Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS) - Nonword Spelling subtests
Test of Written Language-4 (TOWL-4)
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-III (WIAT-III) - Spelling subtest
Woodcock Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ-IV Achievement) - Spelling and Spelling of Sounds subtests

Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement-II (KTEA-II) - Written Expression and Writing Fluency subtests
Oral and Written Language Scales-II (OWLS-2) - Written Expression scale
Test of Early Written Language-3 (TEWL-3)
Test of Written Language-4 (TOWL-4)
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-III (WIAT-III) - Alphabet Writing Fluency, Sentence Composition, Essay Composition subtests
Woodcock Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ-IV Achievement) - Writing Samples, Sentence Writing Fluency, Editing subtests