Quick Phonics Screener (QPS)
Read Naturally has partnered with Dr. Jan Hasbrouck to make the Quick Phonics Screener (QPS) available to educators. QPS is an informal, individually administered, diagnostic phonics assessment that is appropriate for assessing kindergarten through adult students.
How It Works
QPS is an untimed, criterion-referenced assessment that measures a student’s ability to pronounce the phonetic elements in real and nonsense words. QPS is appropriate for K-adult and comes in forms A, B, and C. Teachers administer only those tasks that are appropriate for a student’s age, grade, and performance level.
Teachers can quickly and accurately diagnose their students’ strengths and instructional needs. Results can be used to monitor students’ progress as their phonics skills develop.
Phonetic Elements Assessed
QPS measures a student’s ability to recognize, decode, and pronounce the following phonetic elements:
- Letter Names and Sounds
- VC and CVC
- Beginning- and Ending-Consonant Digraphs
- CVCC and CCVC
- Silent e
- R-controlled Vowels
- Advanced Consonant Sounds, Silent Consonants, and Consonant Digraphs
- Vowel Digraphs and Diphthongs
- Two Syllables, Common Prefixes, and Suffixes
- Three Syllables and Four Syllables
What's Included
Examiner’s Manual
This manual includes:
- An overview of QPS’s purpose and rationale
- Instructions for administering, scoring, and using the results
- Reproducible masters of examiner scoring sheets (Each teacher is allowed to make copies of the examiner scoring sheet only for his/her own students.)
- A bibliography of books, articles, and websites.
Assessment Book
This is a durable, spiral-bound book with three forms of the student assessment to support progress monitoring in the fall, winter, and spring of the school year.
Quick-Start Guide
This is a one-page card summarizing the steps for administering the assessment.
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