General Information
Recommended Grade levels for the ECBLA assessment
Kindergarten - Grade 3
What students are required to do the 2nd time around with the list of letters
Give the sounds
Word list consulted to select the items for word recognition component
Dolch
Number of passages ECBLA contains
10
The 2 broad areas ECBLA assesses
Reading & Writing
Direction the letters should be read
Down/vertically
The 1st Grade level on the Word Recognition list
Pre-Primer
Name 2 errors not counted during oral reading
Self-corrections
Repetitions
Dialectal pronunciations
Name the test used to measure the impact of the intervention
Post-test
You should do this if the student produces no response for more than 5 secs.
Say, "Please go on" OR "Just try your best"
How can you tell a student's level of competence in Word Recognition?
Identify the highest level with a score of 7 or more.
Name 2 purposes of testing students' oral reading
to identify students’ word reading performance.
To identify the cues being used by students during reading.
To determine the levels of oral reading
To determine fluency level
The meaning of the acronym ECBLA?
Eastern Caribbean Basic Literacy Assessment
You should do this if the student says an incorrect letter name or sound.
Write what they said in the box in the Performance Booklet.
Name 2 purposes of testing students' word recognition
1. To determine the students’ sight-word vocabulary (words they can identify on sight).
2. To determine students' methods or strategies to decode words in isolation.
3. To determine the level at which to begin testing oral reading comprehension.
Tell the difference between the cueing system M, S, and V
M - Meaning (Makes sense - mom/mommy)
S - Structure (sounds right - We went to the park/We goed to the park.)
V - Visual (Looks right - clamp/camp/calm)
Names of ECBLA tools used for administering the assessment
Administrator's Manual, Student's Booklet, Student's performance Booklet
The first 4 things you should say to begin administering the Alphabetic Principle component
“I am going to show you some letters. Look at each and say its name.
Not the sound, but the name. Do you understand what you are supposed to do?
When I say “Begin”, please tell me the names of the letters as quickly and carefully as you can. Start here and continue this way (Point to the first letter - p - and draw your finger across the first line.
How do you move on when a student scores less than 7?
If the student scores less than 7 out of 10, then go to the reading passage one level below the last level that the student mastered.
What should you do to move on from one passage to the next?
Count the number of errors that the student has made in the reading passage. Consult the Reading Level box to determine the student’s reading level. Move on to the next reading passage if the student has not yet reached his/her Frustration Level.