Vowel Sound Assessment
Vowel Sound Assessment
Vowel Sound Assessment
Teacher Notes
The purpose of this whole class assessment is to determine which vowel sounds
students can and cannot accurately read. Although, the test actually determines word recognition,
rather than pronunciation, the correlation between the two is statistically significant and the
results are valid and prescriptive. In other words, teachers can reliably use this diagnostic data to
effectively differentiate instruction.
Using nonsense words helps eliminate the variable of sight word prior knowledge. This is
especially necessary for remedial reading students, who may have acquired a bank of sight
words, but still lack decoding ability. Nonsense words help students attend to the vowel sounds
so that the teacher can accurately assess student decoding ability.
Directions/Grading/Recording
Pass out the Vowel Sounds Phonics Assessment to students. SayThis is a short test to see if
you can identify the nonsense words I say out loud. Listen carefully because I wont repeat the
words after the test is finished. On your test, find the first row of four words. [Pause] After I say
each word, fill in the capital letter that best matches the spelling of that word I say. Lets start
with Number One. Ready? Number One is hux (repeat twice more). Note that the teacher reads
only the underlined word in each row. Follow this script for the rest of the test.
Once the assessments have been scored using the Teacher Answer Key, the errors should be
recorded on the Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Sight Words, and Fluency Mastery Matrix
with a / for each vowel sound component not meeting mastery criteria of 80% for each student.
The numerical mastery criteria are listed in the right-hand margins.
Helpful Hints
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A. hox
B. hix
C. hux (ducks)
D. hax
___2.
A. pem
B. pum
C. pim
D. pom (mom)
___3.
A. gud
B. ged
C. gid (bid)
D. gad
___4.
A. meg
B. mig
C. mog
D. mag
___5.
A. kes
B. kus
C. kos
D. kas (pass)
___6.
A. suef
B. seaf (deaf)
C. saef
D. sif
Short Vowels 5/6 Mastery ___/6
___7.
A. bin
B. bine (fine)
C. bian
D. byan
___8.
A. diak
B. dak
C. dake
D. diek
___9.
A. yut
B. yeat
C. yute (chute)
D. yiout
___10.
A. toup
B. tope (rope)
C. teop
D. taop
___11.
A. buot
B. buat
C. buit
D. bute (mute)
___12.
A. fene (bean)
B. feun
C. fen
D. faen
Silent Final e 5/6 Mastery ___/6
___13.
A. vaudy
B. vawdy
C. vady (lady)
D. viedy
___14.
A. fay (bay)
B. fiay
C. foay
D. fuay
___15.
A. kaek
B. keak
C. kik
D. kaik (rake)
___16.
A. bein (rain)
B. boan
C. bian
D. baun
___17.
A. motfew
B. motfe (motley)
C. motfeu
D. motfoa
___18.
A. jeu
B. jiu
C. jeo
D. jee (me)
___19.
A. cid
B. ceid (need)
C. cide
D. ceud
___20.
A. kybo
B. kybi
C. keby (freebie)
D. keyb
___21.
A. deat (meat)
B. diut
C. dight
D. diegt
___22.
A. zean
B. zein
C. zine (bean)
D. zen
___23.
A. pioson
B. piason
C. piuson
D. pison (bison)
___24.
A. beu
B. bigh (high)
C. bei
D. bia
___25.
A. ceter
B. caeter
C. cyter (writer)
D. couter
___26.
A. mip
B. miap
C. mippe
D. miep (wipe)
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___27.
A. biuped
B. beoped
C. boped (moped)
D. baoped
___28.
A. koel (goal)
B. kuol
C. kiol
D. kaol
___29.
A. moip
B. mup
C. moop
D. moap (soap)
___30.
A. kow (show)
B. kuiw
C. keiw
D. kaw
___31.
A. puwtest
B. poutest
C. poitest
D. putest (cutest)
___32.
A. kuo
B. kuh
C. kew (few)
D. kau
___33.
A. bau
B. bui
C. bue (view)
D. beo
___/21
___34.
A. goot (boot)
B. guite
C. giot
D. gueth
___35.
A. croi
B. crue (blue)
C. crau
D. criu
___36.
A. saeyt
B. soty
C. siuty
D. suty (duty)
___37.
A. taed
B. tewd (food)
C. tid
D. teed
___38.
A. wut (foot)
B. waht
C. weut
D. wat
___39.
A. muek
B. mowk
C. mook (book)
D. mauk
___40.
A. mayl
B. mawl
C. mool
D. mowel (towel)
___41.
A. sud
B. soad
C. soud (loud)
D. siud
___42.
A. pown
B. poun
C. poan
D. poin (coin)
___43.
A. luy
loy (boy)
C. lowy
D. luyh
___44.
A. bawn (dawn)
B. ban
C. boun
D. bown
___45.
A. loind
B. loond
C. lound
D. laund (fond)
___46.
A. algo (also)
B. owlgo
C. ailgo
D. argo
___47.
A. rael
B. roul
C. rall (tall)
D. rial
Diphthongs 11/14
___48.
A. loirt
B. loort
C. lawrt
D. lort (sort)
___49.
A. gar
B. gur (fur)
C. gier
D. gor
___50.
A. dorb
B. dowb
C. derv (serve)
D. darb
___51.
A. tir (sir)
B. ture
C. teer
D. tier
___52.
A. morve
B. marve (carve)
C. merve
D. mawrv
___/14
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Name __________________
___1.
A. hox
B. hix
C. hux
D. hax
___2.
A. pem
B. pum
C. pim
D. pom
___3.
A. gud
B. ged
C. gid
D. gad
___4.
A. meg
B. mig
C. mog
D. mag
___5.
A. kes
B. kus
C. kos
D. kas
___6.
A. suef
B. seaf
C. saef
D. sif
___7.
A. bin
B. bine
C. bian
D. byan
___8.
A. diak
B. dak
C. dake
D. diek
___9.
A. yut
B. yeat
C. yute
E. yiout
___10.
A. toup
B. tope
C. teop
D. taop
___11.
A. buot
B. buat
C. buit
D. bute
___12.
A. fene
B. feun
C. fen
D. faen
___13.
A. vaudy
B. vawdy
C. vady
D. viedy
___14.
A. fay
B. fiay
C. foay
D. fuay
___15.
A. kaek
B. keak
C. kik
D. kaik
___16.
A. bein
B. boan
C. bian
D. baun
___17.
A. motfew
B. motfe
C. motfeu
D. motfoa
___18.
A. jeu
B. jiu
C. jeo
D. jee
___19.
A. cid
B. ceid
C. cide
D. ceud
___20.
A. kybo
B. kybi
C. keby
D. keyb
___21.
A. deat
B. diut
C. dight
D. diegt
___22.
A. zean
B. zein
C. zine
D. zen
___23.
A. poison
B. piason
C. piuson
D. pison
___24.
A. beu
B. bigh
C. bei
D. bia
___25.
A. ceter
B. caeter
C. cyter
D. couter
___26.
A. mip
B. miap
C. mippe
D. miep
___/6
___/6
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___27.
A. biuped
B. beoped
C. boped
D. baoped
___28.
A. koel
B. kuol
C. kiol
D. kaol
___29.
A. moip
B. mup
C. moop
D. moap
___30.
A. kow
B. kuiw
C. keiw
D. kaw
___31.
A. puwtest
B. poutest
C. poitest
D. putest
___32.
A. kuo
B. kuh
C. kew
D. kau
___33.
A. bau
B. bui
C. bue
D. beo
___34.
A. goot
B. guite
C. giot
D. gueth
___35.
A. croi
B. crue
C. crau
D. criu
___36.
A. saeyt
B. soty
C. siuty
D. suty
___37.
A. taed
B. tewd
C. tid
D. teed
___38.
A. wut
B. waht
C. weut
D. wat
___39.
A. muek
B. mowk
C. mook
D. mauk
___40.
A. mayl
B. mawl
C. mool
D. mowel
___41.
A. sud
B. soad
C. soud
D. siud
___42.
A. pown
B. poun
C. poan
D. poin
___43.
A. luy
B. loy
C. lowy
D. luyh
___44.
A. bawn
B. ban
C. boun
D. bown
___45.
A. loind
B. loond
C. lound
D. laund
___46.
A. algo
B. owlgo
C. ailgo
D. argo
___47.
A. rael
B. roul
C. rall
D. rial
___48.
A. loirt
B. loort
C. lawrt
D. lort
___49.
A. gar
B. gur
C. gier
D. gor
___50.
A. dorb
B. dowb
C. derv
D. darb
___51.
A. tir
B. ture
C. teer
D. tier
___52.
A. morve
B. marve
C. merve
D. mawrv
___/21
___/14
___/5
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