Domains and Sub-domain Scores

Assesses a student's knowledge of letter names, alphabetic letter sequences and the sounds associated with letters.

Assesses a student's understanding of print concepts regarding written word length and word borders and the difference between words and letters.

Assesses a student's ability to differentiate both upper- and lowercase letters, identify words that are different and match words that are the same.

Assesses a student's understanding of rhyming words; blending and segmenting word parts and phonemes; isolating and manipulating initial, final and medial phonemes and identifying the sounds in consonant blends.

Assesses a student's understanding of short, long and variant vowels and other vowel sounds; initial and final consonants; consonant blends and digraphs; consonant and vowel substitution; and identification of rhyming words and sounds in word families.

Assesses a student's understanding of affixes and syllable patterns in decoding and identification of compound words.

Assesses a student's knowledge of high-frequency words, regular and irregular sight words; multi-meaning words; words used to describe categorical relationships; position words and synonyms and antonyms.

Assesses a student's ability to identify the meaning of words in contextual sentences.

Assesses a student's ability to identify the main topic of text and the ability to answer literal and inferential questions after listening to or reading text.

Assesses a student's ability to identify and name numbers; understand number-object correspondence; complete sequences; compose and decompose groups of up to ten and compare sizes, weights and volumes.