Formal and Informal tests:
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
Yopp-Singer Test of Phonemic
Segmentation
Fry’s Oral Reading Test
San Diego Quick
El Paso Phonics Survey
GRADE (Group Reading Assessment and
Diagnostic Evaluation)
TOWRE (Test of Word Reading
Efficiency)
Informal Reading Inventory
TORC (Test of Reading Comprehension)
Gates MacGinitie
A brief, easy-to-use individually administered
test of the receptive vocabulary of children
and adults. It is a norm-referenced, wide-
range instrument.
The Yopp Singer Test of Phoneme Deletion is
a list of 22 common words. Students are
given the words and asked to break each word
apart (segmentation).
Is an oral test, this test quickly determines a
student’s general reading level.
This test measures the recognition of words
out of context. Generally, proficient readers
read as accurately both in and out of context.
This test consists of 13 graded word lists from
preprimer to eleventh grade. The words
within each list are of about equal difficulty.
The El Paso Phonics is an assessment that
requires students to read unfamiliar words;
however, this test uses nonsense words.
The GRADE is a diagnostic reading test that
that determines what developmental skills
PreK–12 students have mastered and where
students need instruction or intervention.
The TOWRE-2 measures an individual’s
ability to pronounce printed words (i.e., sight
word efficiency) and phonemically regular
nonwords (i.e., phonemic decoding
efficiency), skills that are critical in the
development of overall reading ability.
The Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) is an
individually-administered diagnostic tool that
assesses a student's reading comprehension
and reading accuracy. The IRI measures three
reading levels: independent, instructional and
frustrational.
The TORC 4 can be used to identify children
and adolescents whose silent reading
comprehension scores are significantly below
those of their peers, to document student
progress in remedial programs, and to
investigate reading problems in children and
adolescents.
Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests
(GMRT) enable instructors to determine

Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test
TOPA (Test of Phonological Awareness)
STAR Early Literacy
DIBELS (Dynamic Indictor of Basic Early
Literacy Skills)
TOWL-4 (Test of Written Language)
Bender Gestalt II
ITBS (Iowa Test of Basic Skills)
students’ general levels of vocabulary and
reading comprehension.
The purpose of the Stanford Diagnostic
Reading Test, Fourth Edition (SDRT4) is to
diagnose students' strengths and weaknesses
in the major components of the reading
process. The specific components measured
by the SDRT4 are Phonetic Analysis,
Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Scanning.
The TOPA measures children’s ability to
isolate individual phonemes in spoken words
& knowledge of relationships between letters
and phonemes:
-Can identify children who are in need of
special or supplemental training and support
to accelerate their growth in phonemic,
phonological awareness and letter-sound
knowledge.
The STAR is a diagnostic computer based
adaptive assessment with the main purpose of
screening and progress monitoring.
DIBELS is an assessment instrument that
measures; First Sound Fluency (FSF),
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF), Letter
Naming Fluency (LNF), Nonsense Word
Fluency (NWF), DIBELS Oral Reading
Fluency (DORF), and DAZE
The TOWL-4 is a comprehensive diagnostic
test and it measures the expressive forms of
written language.
The Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test
(abbreviated as Bender-Gestalt test) is a
psychological test used by mental health
practitioners that assesses visual-motor
functioning, developmental disorders, and
neurological impairments in children ages 3
and older and adults.
The ITBS are nationally normed standardized
tests that offer educators a diagnostic look at
how their students are progressing in key
academic areas:
- Vocabulary
- Word Analysis
- Listening
- Reading

CTOPP (Comprehensive Test of
Phonological Processing)
GORT- 5 (Gray Oral Reading Test)
Woodcock Johnson III Tests of
Achievement
- Spelling
The CTOPP is a norm referenced test that
measures phonological processing abilities
related to reading.
The Gray Oral Reading Test is one of the
most widely-used measures of oral reading
fluency and comprehension.
The Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of
Achievement includes 22 tests for measuring
skills in reading, mathematics, and writing, as
well as important oral language abilities and
academic knowledge.