SLD/Dyslexia Assessment Resource Guide

Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD)/Dyslexia Assessment Resource Guide

Assessment Options for Reading-Related Component Skills


Most of the assessments presented in the Guide are available at the SERC Library and can be borrowed for review. To find a specific assessment click on the Complete A-Z Listing.

Letter/Word Recognition (real words)

AIMSweb Tests of Early Literacyor Reading*

  •  Letter Naming Fluency
  • Oral Reading Fluency

Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early LiteracySkills, 6th Edition (DIBELS)*

  • Letter Naming Fluency
  • Oral Reading Fluency

Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills Next (DIBELS Next)*

  • Oral Reading Fluency

Feifer Assessment of Reading (FAR)

  • Isolated Word Reading Fluency

Gallistel-Ellis Test of CodingSkills

Gray Dignostic Reading Tests, 2nd Edition (GDRT-2)

  • Letter/Word Recognition
  • Reading Vocabulary

Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, 3rd Edition (KTEA-3)

  • Letter and Word Recognition (both timed and untimed subtests)

Test of Word ReadingEfficiency, 2nd Edition (TOWRE- 2)

  • Sight Word Efficiency (timed)

Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, 3rd Edition (WIAT-III)

  • Word Reading(timed)

Wide Range Achievement Test, 4th Edition (WRAT-4)

  • Word Reading

Word Identification and SpellingTest (WIST)

  • Word Identification

Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests, 3rd Edition (WRMT-III)

  • Letter Identification
  • Word Identification

Woodcock-Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJ III-DRB)

  • Letter-Word Identification

Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement, 4th Edition (WJ-IV)

  • Letter-Word Identification (untimed)

    Word Decoding (pseudowords)

    AIMSweb Tests of Early Literacyor Reading*

    • Nonsense Word Fluency

    Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early LiteracySkills, 6th Edition (DIBELS)*

    • Nonsense Word Fluency

    Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early LiteracySkills Next (DIBELS Next)*

    • Nonsense Word Fluency

    Feifer Assessment of Reading (FAR)

    • Nonsense Word Decoding

    Gallistel-Ellis Test of CodingSkills

    Gray Diagnostic Reading Tests, 2nd Edition (GDRT-2)

    • Phonetic Analysis

    Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, 3rd Edition (KTEA-3)

    • Nonsense Word Decoding (timed and untimedsubtests)

    PhonologicalAwareness Test 2 (PAT-2)

    • Decoding Section (untimed)

    Test of Integrated Languageand Literacy Skills(TILLS)

    • Nonword Reading

    Test of Word ReadingEfficiency, 2nd Edition (TOWRE- 2)

    • Phonetic Decoding Efficiency (timed)

    Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, 3rd Edition (WIAT-III)

    • Pseudoword Decoding (timed)

    Word Identification and SpellingTest (WIST)

    • Word Identification

    Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests, 3rd Edition (WRMT-III)

    • Word Attack

    Woodcock-Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJ III-DRB)

    • Word Attack

    Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ-IV)

    • Word Attack(untimed)

      Phonological Processing (phonological awareness, phonological memory, and rapid naming)

      AIMSweb Tests of Early Literacyor Reading*

      • Letter Sound Fluency
      • Phoneme Segmentation Fluency

      Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing, 2nd Edition (CTOPP-2)

      • Phonological Awareness, Phonological Memory, and/or Rapid Naming quotients

      Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early LiteracySkills, 6th Edition (DIBELS)*

      • Phoneme Segmentation Fluency

      Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early LiteracySkills Next (DIBELS Next)*

      • Phoneme Segmentation Fluency

      Dynamic Screening for Phonological Awareness (DSPA)

      Feifer Assessment of Reading (FAR)

      • Phonological Awareness
      • Positioning Sounds
      • Rapid Automatic Naming
      • Verbal Fluency

      Gray Diagnostic Reading Tests, 2nd Edition (GDRT-2)

      • Phonological Awareness
      • Rapid Naming

      Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, 3rd Edition (KTEA-3)

      • Phonological Awareness

      Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Test, 3rd Edition (LAC-3)

      PhonologicalAwareness Test 2 (PAT-2)

      • Phonological Awareness Section

      Rapid Automatized Naming and Rapid Alternating Stimulus (RAN/RAS)Tests

      Test of Auditory  Processing Skills, 3rd Edition (TAPS-3)

      • Word Discrimination
      • Phonological Segmentation
      • Phonological Blending

      Test of Early Reading Ability, 4th Edition (TERA-4)

      • Alphabet

      Test of Integrated Languageand Literacy Skills(TILLS)

      • Phonemic Awareness
      • Nonword Repetition

      Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language, 4th Edition (TACL-4)

      • Grammatical Morphemes

      Test of Phonological Awareness, 2nd Edition (TOPA-2+)

      The Phonological Awareness Profile

      Word Identification and SpellingTest (WIST)

      • Sound-Symbol Knowledge

      Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests, 3rd Edition (WRMT-III)

      • Phonological Awareness
      • Rapid Automatic Naming

      Woodcock-Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJ III-DRB)

      • Incomplete Words
      • Sound Blending

      Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of CognitiveAbilities(WJ-IV)

      • Phonological Processing

      Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Oral Language (WJ-IV)

      • Rapid Picture Naming
      • Retrieval Fluency
      • Segmentation
      • Sound Awareness (rhyming and deletion)
      • Sound Blending
      • Rapid Picture Naming
      • Retrieval Fluency

      Yopp-Singer Test of Phonological Awareness


      Text Reading Accuracy (oral)

      AIMSweb Tests of Early Literacyor Reading*

      • MAZE Fluency

      Feifer Assessment of Reading (FAR)

      • Oral Reading Fluency

      Gray Oral Reading Test, 5th Edition (GORT-5)

      • Accuracy

      Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, 3rd Edition (WIAT-III)

      • Oral Reading Fluency– Accuracy Score

      Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ-IV) 

      • Oral Reading

        Text Reading Fluency/Rate (oral or silent)

        Feifer Assessment of Reading (FAR)

        • Oral Reading Fluency
        • Irregular Word Reading Fluency
        • Silent Reading Fluency

        Gray Oral Reading Test, 5th Edition(GORT-5)

        • Rate (oral)
        • Fluency (oral)

        Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, 3rd Edition (WIAT-III)

        • Oral Reading Fluency-Rate Score(oral)
        • Oral Reading Fluency Composite (oral)

        Test of Integrated Languageand Literacy Skills(TILLS)

        • Reading Fluency(oral)

        Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests, 3rd Edition (WRMT-III)

        • Oral Reading Fluency

        Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ-IV)

        • Sentence Reading Fluency (silent)

          Reading Comprehension (sentence and text level)

          Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early LiteracySkills Next (DIBELS Next)*

          • DAZE Fluency

          Feifer Assessment of Reading (FAR)

          • Silent Reading Comprehension (comprehension score)

          Gray Diagnostic Reading Tests, 2nd Edition (GDRT-2)

          • Meaningful Reading

          Gray Oral Reading Test, 5th Edition (GORT-5)

          • Comprehension (passage reading and question answering)

          Gray Silent Reading Tests, 2nd Edition (GSRT-2)

          Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, 3rd Edition (KTEA-3)

          • Reading Comprehension (match word to picture/passage reading and question answering)
          • Reading Comprehension (passage reading and question answering)

          Oral and Written Language Scales, 2nd Edition (OWLS-II)

          • Reading Comprehension

          Test of Early Reading Ability, 4th Edition (TERA-4)

          • Meaning

          Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills(TILLS)

          • Reading Comprehension

          Test of Reading Comprehension, 4th Edition (TORC-4)

          Woodcock-Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJ III-DRB)

          • Passage Comprehension

          Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ-IV)

          • Passage Comprehension

            Oral Language – Receptive Vocabulary and Morphology

            Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language, 2nd Edition (CASL-2)

            • Receptive Vocabulary
            • Synonyms
            • Grammatical Morphemes

            Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test, 3rd Edition (CREVT-3)

            • Receptive Vocabulary

            Gray Diagnostic Reading Tests, 2nd Edition (GDRT-2)

            • Listening Vocabulary

            Montgomery Assessment of Vocabulary Acquisition (MAVA)

            Peabody PictureVocabulary Test, 4th Edition (PPVT-4)

            Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test, 4th Edition (ROWPVT-4)

            Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language, 4th Edition (TACL-4)

            • Grammatical Morphemes
            • Vocabulary

            Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, 3rd Edition (WIAT-III)

            • Receptive Vocabulary

              Oral Language – Expressive Vocabulary and Morphology

              Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language, 2nd Edition (CASL-2)

              • Antonyms
              • Expressive Vocabulary
              • Grammatical Morphemes
              • Grammaticality Judgment

              Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test, 3rd Edition (CREVT-3)

              • Expressive Vocabulary

              Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test, 4th Edition (EOWPVT-4)

              Expressive Vocabulary Test, 2nd Edition (EVT-2)

              Feifer Assessment of Reading (FAR)

              • Semantic Concepts (synonyms and antonyms)

              Language Processing Test, Elementary (LPT)

              Montgomery Assessment of Vocabulary Acquisition (MAVA)

              The Word Test – Elementary, 3rd Edition The Word Test – Adolescent, 2nd Edition

              Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, 3rd Edition (WIAT-III)

              • Expressive Vocabulary

              Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS)

              • Vocabulary Awareness

              Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests, 3rd Edition (WRMT-III)

              • Word Comprehension

              Woodcock-Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJ III-DRB)

              • Oral Vocabulary

              Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ-IV)

              • Oral Vocabulary

              Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Oral Language (WJ-IV)

              • Picture Vocabulary

                Oral Language – Broad Comprehension Skills (sentence and text-level)

                Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, 5th Edition (CELF-5)

                • Receptive Language Composite (varied formats)

                Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, 5th Edition, Metalinguistics (CELF-5 Metalinguistics)

                Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language, 2nd Edition (CASL-2)

                • Sentence Comprehension

                Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, 3rd Edition (KTEA-3)

                • Listening Comprehension

                Oral and Written Language Scales, 2nd Edition (OWLS-II)

                • Listening Comprehension

                Test of Adolescent and Adult Language, 4th Edition (TOAL-4)

                Test of Early Language Development, 4th Edition (TELD-3)

                Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills(TILLS)

                • Listening Comprehension

                Test of Language Development - Primary, 4th Edition (TOLD-4)

                • Listening Composite

                Test of Language Development - Intermediate, 4th Edition (TOLD-I-4)

                Test of Narrative Language, 2nd Edition (TNL-2)

                Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language, 4th Edition (TACL-4)

                • Elaborated Phrases and Sentences

                The Listening Comprehension Test, 2nd Edition The Listening Comprehension Test, Adolescent

                Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, 3rd Edition (WIAT-III)

                • Oral Discourse
                • Comprehension

                Wide Range Achievement Test, 4th Edition (WRAT-4)

                • Sentence Comprehension

                Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests, 3rd Edition (WRMT-III)

                • Listening Comprehension

                Woodcock-Johnson III Diagnostic Reading Battery (WJ III-DRB)

                • Listening Comprehension

                Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ-IV)

                • Oral Comprehension (cloze)

                Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Oral Language

                • Oral Comprehension
                • Understanding Directions

                  Oral Language – Broad Expressive Skills (sentence and text-level)

                  Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, 5th Edition (CELF-5)

                  • Expressive Language Composite (varied formats)

                  Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, 5th Edition, Metalinguistics (CELF-5 Metalinguistics)

                  Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language, 2nd Edition (CASL-2)

                  • Double Meaning
                  • Idiomatic Language
                  • Inference
                  • Meaning from Context
                  • Nonliteral Language
                  • Sentence Expression

                  Language Processing Test, Elementary, 3rd Edition (LPT-3)

                  Oral and Written Language Scales, 2nd Edition (OWLS-II)

                  • Oral Expression

                  Test of Adolescent and Adult Language, 4th Edition (TOAL-4)

                  Test of Early Language Development, 4th Edition (TELD-3)

                  Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills(TILLS)

                  • Story Retelling
                  • Delayed Story Retelling

                  Test of Language Competence, Expanded Edition (TLC-E)

                  • Ambiguous Sentences
                  • Figurative Language
                  • Listening Comprehension: Making Inferences

                  Test of Language Development - Primary, 4th Edition (TOLD-4)

                  • Speaking Composite

                  Test of Language Development - Intermediate, 4th Edition (TOLD-I-4)

                  Test of Narrative Language, 2nd Edition (TNL-2)

                  The Expressive Language Test, 2nd Edition

                  Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ-IV)

                  • Story Recall

                  Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Oral Language

                  • Sentence Repetition

                    Oral Language – Pragmatics

                    Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, 5th Edition (CELF-5)

                    • Pragmatics Profile
                    • Pragmatics Activity Checklist

                    Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, 5th Edition, Metalinguistics (CELF-5 Metalinguistics)

                    Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language, 2nd Edition (CASL-2)

                    • Pragmatics

                    Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills(TILLS)

                    • Social Communication

                    Social Language Development Test – Elementary Social Language Development Test - Adolescent

                    Test of Language Competence, Expanded Edition (TLC-E)

                    • Oral Expression: Recreating Speech Acts

                    Test of Pragmatic Language, 2nd Edition (TOPL-2)


                    Spelling

                    Gallistel-Ellis Test of Coding Skills

                    Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, 3rd Edition (KTEA-3)

                    • Spelling

                    Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills(TILLS)

                    • Nonword Spelling

                    Test of Written Language,4th Edition (TOWL-4)

                    • Spelling

                    Test of Written Spelling, 5th Edition (TWS-5)

                    Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, 3rd Edition (WIAT-III)

                    • Spelling

                    Wide Range Achievement Test, 4th Edition (WRAT-4)

                    • Spelling

                    Word Identification and Spelling Test (WIST)

                    • Spelling

                    Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ-IV)

                    • Spelling

                    Written Expression

                    Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, 3rd Edition (KTEA-3)

                    • Written Expression

                    Oral and Written Language Scales, 2nd Edition (OWLS-II)

                    • Written Expression

                    Test of Early Written Language, 3rd Edition(TEWL-3)

                    Test of Written Language,4th Edition (TOWL-4)

                    Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, 3rd Edition (WIAT-III)

                    • Written Language Subtests

                    Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ-IV)

                    • Sentence Writing Fluency
                    • Writing Samples

                      *Screening measures listed in this guide include research-based reading assessments identified by the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) and published as the Approved Menu of Research-based Grades K-3 Universal Screening Reading Assessments.