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GL Assessment › Educational Psychology › Specific Learning Difficulties › Dyslexia Portfolio Dyslexia Portfolio
A battery of short, diagnostic tests that help identify areas of difficulty in literacy learning.
Author(s): Martin Turner
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Age Range: 6 - 16 years Administration: Individual Timings: 40 mins The Dyslexia Portfolio comprises eight short tests for use with pupils in the 6-16 age-range who have already been screened as having dyslexic tendencies or whose literacy attainment is giving cause for concern that they may be dyslexic.
It is the third publication in GL Assessment's popular dyslexia series and follows the Dyslexia Screener and Dyslexia Guidance, both co-authored by Martin Turner. Test DescriptionSingle Word Reading: A version of GL Assessment's Single Word Reading Test. Single Word Spelling: Adapted from SingleWord Spelling Test with words on a common scale for selection by the teacher at each student's level. Reading Fluency: A silent reading exercise where the student is asked to answer 'yes' or 'no' to a series of statements (a timed test). Phoneme Deletion: Students are required to analyse how a word will sound without the initial, middle or final phoneme and say it aloud. Non-word Reading: A test that assesses the decoding of letter strings. Students read nonsense words from print. Rapid Picture Naming: Students are presented with a series of pictures of everyday objects and asked to name them (a timed test). Rate of Writing: Students are asked to copy from printed text and complete a free writing task from a given prompt (a timed test). Digit Span: Students are required to repeat either backwards or forwards a string of digits that are given by the teacher.
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