Diagnostic Assessments
Learning Disabilities
Literacy Development Stages
Variables of Instruction
Developmental Stage Assessments
100

Formative assessment that measures reading performance over time

Diagnostic Reading Assessment (DRA)

100

Kids with this disability struggle with differentiating sounds

What is Auditory Processing Disorder

100

In this stage, students tend to use scribbles for written communication

What is the Emergent Literacy Stage

100

The name or task of a student during all reading activities, accounts for their interests, abilities and struggles

What is Reader

100

In what stage to students begin to develop concepts of print/

What is the Emergent Literacy Stage
200

Exam that measures mastery on every grade level and offers suggestions for specific subset remediation

What is GRADE

200

Students with this disability may display struggles with holding a pencil and handwritting

What is Visual Motor

200

This stage includes high-school college and career-aged persons

What is Complex Literacy Stage
200

Aspect of education that teachers must modify to reach students on their individual level

What is Task

200

This assessment, used in the strategic learning stage, requires students to express their thought processes aloud while they complete a difficult task

What is a Think-Aloud

300

This diagnostic assessment measures receptive vocabulary skills and is represented by the acronym PPVT

Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

300

Students with this disability have difficulty attaching meaning to sounds

What is Language Processing Disorder
300

List the grade levels included in the Developing Literacy Stage

What are 3rd, 4th and 5th grade

300

Situation context requires students to create a reading environment of this style

What is positive

300

Spelling assessments are most appropriate in this stage

What is the Early Development Stage

400

This exam is administered one-on-one. assesses reading strengths and is represented by a wild furry friend

What is Fox in a Box

400

This disability negatively affects a student's ability to communicate socially

What is Non-verbal learning disability

400

In this stage, students begin to develop a knowledge of point of view

What is the Strategic Literacy Stage

400

Defined as adopting strategies that meet individual student ability, interest and need

What is technique
400

Another name for an assessment that measures student mistakes and their consequential impact on comprehension

Miscue Analysis

500

Which exam is state sponsored and measures reading development only in grades Kindergarten through third?

What is the Texas Primary Reading Inventory

500

List the 3 largest reading conventions students with dyslexia struggle with.

What are fluency, decoding and comprehension.

500

In the Early Developing stage, students begin to understand that letters have unique sounds that create words. This principle is known by the name

What is the Alphabetic Principle

500

Narrative, fictional, non-fiction, expository.

What is text

500

Fluency is measured across all stages, but becomes most critical here

What is the Developing Literacy Stage

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