Description: A standardised reading test that assesses regular words, exception words and non-words, thus providing diagnostic information to guide intervention. The test comprises 90 items divided as follows: • 30 exception words which provide a measure of lexical-semantic processes; • 30 non-words which provide a measure of phonological recoding processes; • 30 regular words which can be read by either process. It is the first test to: • Match words in the regular word and non-word sets by compiling non-words from segments of regular words. • Match the regular and exception word sets according to their frequency of occurrence in books read by school children in the UK. • Provide normative data obtained from a large and representative sample of children from Reception/P1 to Y7/S1 in schools in England. Quick and easy to administer, score and interpret, the Diagnostic Test of Word Reading Processes makes available to teachers a diagnostic tool that has long been used in research studies, and that enables precise specification of the areas of difficulty experienced by individual children in developing fluent and automatic word reading. Why use the Diagnostic Test of Word Reading Processes? • Quick and easy to administer, score and interpret • The assessment has been developed by the Forum for Research in Literacy and Language • It provides a pupil profile based on an overall standard age score and stanine score for each part of the test (non- word reading and regular and exception word reading), helping to inform teaching that is appropriate to the needs of the individual • May be used to screen all children or with individuals where a delay in reading development is suspected • Includes a concise and informative teacher’s manual with guidance on interpretation and next steps • It is suitable for use across all UK curricula Developed by the Forum for Research in Literacy and Language and used as a research tool over several years, the Diagnostic Test of Word Reading Processes standardisation was carried out in 2009 and 2011 and the test yields an overall standard age score, age equivalent scores and an individual stanine score for each of its three component parts.

Series: DTWRP

Publisher: Granada Learning

Grade: 6-12 Years

Format: FORMS

Keywords: Reading