Early Reading Assessments

Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement (OSELA)

• Meant to be formative
  
• beginning readers and writers (K-1)
• 68-78 minutes for each child to administer
• administrator need to be trained

1. Assesses
   

• Phonemic awareness
  
• knowledge of letter names and sounds
  
• word attack strategies
  
• reading fluency
  
• reading comprehension
  
• vocabulary knowledge
  

1. Subtests
   

• running records
  
• letter id
• concepts about print
  
• word test
• writing vocab
• hear/record sounds in words

Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBES)

• Purpose is to regularly monitor development of pre-reading and early reading skills
  
• one minute administration per test, 3 times per year
  
• no specialized knowledge needed for administration
  
• individually administered

1. Dibels assesses
   

• phonemic awareness
  
• knowledge of letter names and sounds
  
• word attack strategies
  
• reading fluency
  

1. Dibels subtests
   

• initial sounds fluency onset recognition fluency
  
• phoneme segmentation fluency
  
• nonsense word fluency
  
• letter naming fluency
  
• oral reading fluency
  
• retell fluency

dibels.uoregon.edu/measures.php