The Basic Reading Skills composite measures EE107’s ability to read a list of words and correctly pronounce nonsense words. EE107’s standard score of 75 falls in the low range at the 5th percentile, indicating that she performed at or 5 percent of her peers. Based on EE107’s performance on this composite, it appears that she will benefit from explicit instruction on word recognition skills and phonics skills.
Reading Fluency refers to the ability to read quickly and accurately. It is an essential component of proficient reading and is based upon one’s level of automaticity in recognizing and/or decoding words. Reading fluency is also a necessary building block for proficient reading comprehension, as the ability to comprehend text …show more content…
She was able to read basic words (e.g., people), but she struggled with higher level words (e.g., garden). Sometimes EE107 would guess a word that began with the initial letter of the presented word. For example, for natural, she said, “nature.” On the Word Attack subtest, EE107 was asked to decode nonsense or pseudowords. EE107 was able to decode some isolated phonemes (e.g., sh) and presented nonsense words, but she generally struggled with correctly applying sound-letter relationships. Specifically, she did not appear to apply rules pertaining to short and long vowels. For example, for quade, she sad …show more content…
EE107 scored in the low range on Sentence Writing Fluency, which measures EE107’s her ability to formulate and write sentences quickly. However, Written Expression is a strength for EE107. Particularly, Writing Samples, which measures her ability to write sentences given a verbal and picture cue, was a strength for EE107. The discrepancy between Writing Samples (average) and Sentence Writing Fluency (low) may indicate that EE107 would benefit from extra time on writing tasks. EE107’s Written Expression standard score of 87 falls within the average range and at the 19th percentile, indicating that EE107 performed at or above 19 percent of her