Graduate Program

School Psychology

Degree Name

Specialist in School Psychology

Semester of Degree Completion

1998

Thesis Director

Christine McCormick

Abstract

Measures that assess pre-reading skills were examined. The measures included a typical informal kindergarten inventory for Initial Consonant Sound Identification, and Good's (1997) DIBELS measures that include: Letter Naming Fluency, Onset Recognition Fluency, and Phonemic Awareness Fluency. Participants included 50 kindergarten students from three different classrooms from two elementary school buildings in the same school district. Results demonstrated that the four measures were highly correlated with each other, and that the Onset Recognition Fluency measure best predicted the classroom teacher' predictions of at-risk students for reading difficulties. The four measures together were moderately to highly predictive of the teachers' ratings of at-risk students. In addition, means, standard deviations, ranges, and cut off points were established for the group of participants in this study.

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