Assessing Phonological Awareness

Informal Assessments

• Tapping words, syllables

• Blending and deleting syllables

• Matching rhymes

• Blending onsets and rimes

• Generating rhymes

• Blending and segmenting phonemes

Recognizing Rhyme Assessment

Assessment designed by Dr. Adria Klein, Professor at CSU San Bernardino

Beginning Sounds

Assessment designed by Dr. Adria Klein, Professor at CSU San Bernardino

Final Sounds

Assessment designed by Dr. Adria Klein, Professor at CSU San Bernardino

Blending Sounds

Assessment designed by Dr. Adria Klein, Professor at CSU San Bernardino

Yopp-Singer Test of Phoneme Segmentation

• Assesses student’s ability to isolate and pronounce the individual phonemes in words

• Available in “A Reading Toolkit”

• Or online at

Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills- DIBELS

Introduction to the DIBELS

ISF: Initial Sounds Fluency

PSF: Phoneme Segmentation Fluency

Assessment Guidelines

“Phonological Awareness: Instructional and Assessment Guideline” by David J. Chard and Shirley Dickson