The Abecedarian Reading Assessment
The Abecedarian Reading Assessment
was designed to test what research has shown to be the most essential knowledge
domains for developing reading skills. The knowledge domains assessed
by the Abecedarian include:
• Letter Knowledge
• Phonological Awareness (Rhyme
and Phoneme Identity)
• Phoneme Awareness (First and
Last Sounds and Phoneme Segmentation)
• Knowledge of the Alphabetic Principle
• Vocabulary (Production, Synonyms,
and Antonyms)
• Decoding (Fluency, Regular Words
and Irregular Words)
Written by two reading researchers,
Sebastian Wren and Jennifer Watts, the Abecedarian is available
for you to download and use for free. It is a large document
(over 50 pages long), so it may take a while to download if you have a
telephone connection. The authors have given permission for this
document to be reproduced freely on two conditions:
• The Abecedarian may not be altered.
• Appropriate credit must be given
for authorship.
For more information on assessment
and for other assessments that can be downloaded free of charge, go to
our section titled A
is for Assessment.
