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The essential cognitive elements of the reading process have been outlined in the Cognitive Framework of Reading. To assist educators in organizing their assessment practices around the cognitive framework, we've created a way to easily search for published early reading assessments that specifically test skills and knowledge outlined by the Cognitive Framework of Reading.

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Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP)

Author: Richard Wagner, Joseph Torgesen, and Carol Rashotte
Date Published: 1999

Blending Words — Words are spoken aloud to the student with a clear pause between each phoneme, and the student must correctly identify each word.

Initial Sound Matching — The student must match two words that begin with the same sound (phoneme).

Final Sound Matching — The student must match two words that end with the same sound (phoneme).

Nonword Repetition — Non-words are read aloud to the student, and the student must repeat them verbatim. Some of the non-words are very long, so this is a test of phonological memory span.

Rapid Color Naming — The student must identify colors by name as quickly as possible (for ages 7 and older only).

Rapid Digit Naming — The student must identify numerals from a list as quickly as possible (for ages 7 and older only).

Rapid Letter Naming — The student must identify letters of the alphabet as quickly as possible (for ages 7 and older only).

Rapid Object Naming — The student must identify objects (from pictures) as quickly as possible.

Blending Nonwords — Nonsense words are spoken aloud to the student with a clear pause between each phoneme, and the student must correctly identify each nonsense word.

Phoneme Reversal — Real words are read backwards to the student. The student must identify the word (for ages 7 and older only).

Segmenting Words — A word is spoken aloud to the student, and the student repeats the word, placing a clear pause between each phoneme (for ages 7 and older only).

Segmenting Nonwords — A nonsense word is spoken aloud to the student, and the student repeats the nonsense word, placing a clear pause between each phoneme (for ages 7 and older only).

Memory for Digits — Random digits are read aloud to the student, and the student must repeat them in the same order.