Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t8hqh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-26T21:01:17.085Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Nonword Reading Tests: A Review of the Available Resources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2012

Danielle Colenbrander*
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; MULTILIT Research Unit, Sydney, Australia. [email protected]
Lyndsey Nickels
Affiliation:
MULTILIT Research Unit, Sydney, Australia.
Saskia Kohnen
Affiliation:
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; MULTILIT Research Unit, Sydney, Australia.
*
*Address for correspondence: Danielle Colenbrander, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.

Abstract

Response to Intervention (RTI) models of reading instruction have received much attention in the literature (Fuchs, Mock, Morgan, & Young, 2003; Hosp & Ardoin, 2008; Justice, 2006). Such models call for frequent and high-quality assessment of students' skills. One skill that is vital in the process of learning to read is the ability to sound out letters and blend these sounds together to produce a word. According to Dual Route models of reading (e.g., Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon, & Ziegler, 2001), these skills comprise the sublexical route to reading. This is best assessed by tests of nonword reading. In this article, 17 tests of nonword reading were reviewed in light of RTI and Dual Route models. The aim of the review was to determine the best available nonword reading tests for use at the Tier One and Tier Two levels of intervention, and the best available nonword reading test for diagnostic (Tier Three) purposes. The review determined that several good-quality tests of nonword reading, suitable for assessing the general functioning of the sublexical route to reading (at the Tier One and Tier Two level), are available, but that no test of nonword reading is available that fulfils all of the desirable criteria for a Tier Three, diagnostic assessment.

Type
Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)