earlyReading Spanish Overview – FastBridge

Description

earlyReading Spanish is an assessment of essential early reading skills such as concepts of print, phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency. The FAST earlyReading Spanish assessment includes a total of 12 subtests, however, not all of them are used at the same time. Some of the subtests are used only for screening and others for progress monitoring. Here is a summary of all of the earlyReading Spanish subtests and the skills measured.

earlyReading Spanish Subtests

Subtest	Skill it Measures
Concepts of Print	Page orientation, left to right word order, etc.
Onset Sounds	Phonemic Awareness
Letter Names	Alphabetic Principle (Phonics)
Letter Sounds	Alphabetic Principle (Phonics)
Word Rhyming	Phonemic Awareness
Word Blending	Phonemic Awareness
Word Segmenting	Phonemic Awareness
Sight Word Reading	Fluency
Decodable Words	Alphabetic Principle (Phonics)
Syllable Reading	Alphabetic Principle (Phonics)
Sentence Reading	Fluency
Oral Repetition	Phonemic Awareness

When used for screening in grade 1, the FAST CBMreading assessment is also included in the earlyReading Spanish Composite in the winter and spring.

Subtest Descriptions

Concepts of Print (CPs)

The earlyReading Spanish -- Concepts of Print subtest measures a student’s general understanding of how print is used so other reading skills can emerge. During this subtest, the student points to identify letters, words, and sentences as well as the left to right Spanish print directionality. earlyReading Spanish -- Concepts of Print is part of the Composite in the fall of kindergarten.

Onset Sounds (OSs)

The earlyReading Spanish -- Onset Sounds subtest assesses a student's phonemic awareness, which is the ability to identify and manipulate the smallest units of sound in spoken language. During the earlyReading Spanish -- Onset Sounds subtest, the teacher asks the student to identify the first sound in a pictured word. earlyReading Spanish -- Onset Sounds is part of the Composite in the fall and winter of kindergarten and can also be used for progress monitoring.

Letter Names (LNs)

The earlyReading Spanish -- Letter Names subtest assesses a student’s accuracy and automaticity with naming uppercase and lowercase Spanish letters in isolation. earlyReading Spanish -- Letter Names is an optional screening and progress monitoring assessment.

Letter Sounds (LSs)

The earlyReading Spanish -- Letter Sounds subtest is timed and assesses a student’s ability and automaticity with providing the sounds for lower and uppercase Spanish letters in isolation. earlyReading Spanish -- Letter Sounds is part of the Composite in the fall, winter, and spring of kindergarten and it can also be used for progress monitoring.

Word Rhyming (WRs)

The earlyReading Spanish -- Word Rhyming subtest assesses a student’s ability to recognize and generate rhyming words. It requires students to identify pictures that rhyme with a given word or generate a rhyme for a pictured word. earlyReading Spanish -- Word Rhyming is an optional screening assessment.

Word Blending (WBs)

The earlyReading Spanish -- Word Blending subtest assesses a student’s ability to form a word from individually-spoken sounds called phonemes. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in spoken language. During the earlyReading Spanish -- Word Blending subtest, examiners say each phoneme in a word and the student is expected to say the complete word. earlyReading Spanish -- Word Blending is an optional screening and progress monitoring assessment.

Word Segmenting (WSs)

The earlyReading Spanish -- Word Segmenting subtest assesses a student’s ability to separate a spoken word into individual sounds, called phonemes. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in spoken language. During the earlyReading Spanish -- Word Segmenting subtest, the examiner says a Spanish word and asks the student to say any sounds in the word. earlyReading Spanish -- Word Segmenting is part of the Composite in the winter and spring of kindergarten and the fall, winter, and spring of grade 1. It can also be used for progress monitoring.

Sight Word Reading (SWs)

The earlyReading Spanish -- Sight Words subtest assesses a student's ability to recognize up to 150 of the most high-frequency Spanish words. The earlyReading Spanish -- Sight Words subtest is distinct from the earlyReading Spanish -- Decodable Words subtest because many high-frequency words are not decodable, and students must recognize them with automaticity rather than by using decoding strategies. earlyReading Spanish -- Sight Words is part of the Composite in the spring of kindergarten, the fall, winter, and spring of grade 1, and it can also be used for progress monitoring.

Decodable Words (DWs)

The earlyReading Spanish -- Decodable Words subtest assesses a student’s ability to read phonetically regular words. earlyReading Spanish -- Decodable Words can be substituted for earlyReading Spanish -- Syllable Reading in the earlyReading Spanish -- Composite assessment, and it can also be used for progress monitoring.

Syllable Reading (SA)

The earlyReading Spanish -- Syllable Reading subtest is timed and assesses a student’s ability to read Spanish syllables (e.g., "te"). earlyReading Spanish -- Syllable Reading is part of the Composite for fall, winter and spring in both kindergarten and grade 1. It can also be used for progress monitoring.

Sentence Reading (SRs)

The earlyReading Spanish -- Sentence Reading subtest assesses a student’s ability to read individual sentences from a story that is accompanied by pictures. As a precursor to CBMreading Spanish, earlyReading Spanish -- Sentence Reading is distinct in two important ways. First, students read from text that is simple in structure. Second, the paragraphs are short, separated by page, and accompanied by pictures. earlyReading Spanish -- Sentence Reading is part of the Composite for the fall of grade 1.

Oral Repetition (ORs)

The Oral Repetition task is a measure of a student’s receptive oral language, particularly students' knowledge of syntax (i.e., sentence structure). During the earlyReading Spanish -- Oral Repetition subtest, the examiner reads 15 sentences of increasing length out loud, one at a time, and asks the student to repeat each sentence verbally, word for word. The earlyReading Spanish -- Oral Repetition subtest is scored using values of 0, 1, or 2, depending on how much detail the student recalls from each sentence, for a possible score of 30 points. earlyReading Spanish -- Oral Repetition is an optional screening subtest that can be used with students having difficulties with oral language development.

Screening with earlyReading Spanish

earlyReading Spanish is recommended for universal screening in kindergarten and grade 1. When used for universal screening, earlyReading includes four specific subtests at each screening period (e.g., fall, winter, spring). The combined scores from the four subtests are weighted to create a Composite score. The following table displays the subtests included in the Composite at each screening period.

earlyReading Spanish -- Composite Subtests

GRADE	FALL	WINTER	SPRING
K	Concepts of Print	Onset Sounds	Letter Sounds
	Onset Sounds	Letter Sounds	Syllable Reading
	Letter Sounds	Syllable Reading	Word Segmenting
	Syllable Reading	Word Segmenting	Sight Words
1	Syllable Reading	Syllable Reading	Syllable Reading
	Word Segmenting	Word Segmenting	Word Segmenting
	Sight Words	Sight Words	Sight Words
	Sentence Reading	CBMreading	CBMreading

The Composite subtest scores are weighted in order to account for the proportional contribution of each subtest to the student’s overall emerging reading skills.

Progress Monitoring with earlyReading Spanish

When earlyReading Spanish is used for progress monitoring, one subtest is selected. The following eight of the earlyReading Spanish subtests are available for progress monitoring.

earlyReading Spanish Subtests Available for Progress Monitoring

Onset Sounds
Word Blending
Word Segmenting
Letter Names
Letter Sounds
Decodable Words
Syllable Reading
Sight Words

Those earlyReading Spanish subtests available for progress monitoring have 20 different equivalent forms that are used at regular intervals. Equivalent forms are ones that maintain the task difficulty level while varying the sounds, letters, and words on each form to prevent practice effects. FastBridge recommends the following subtests for progress monitoring students in kindergarten and grade 1:

Kindergarten: Letter Sounds
Grade 1: CBMreading

These assessments are recommended because they measure the key skills typically taught during those grades. Nonetheless, not all students will be ready to use the above assessments for progress monitoring. Specifically, if a student is participating in an intervention to learn precursor skills such as blending and segmenting words, or decoding words, other earlyReading Spanish progress measures might be appropriate. It is important to match the progress measure with the specific reading skills being taught.

There is also an English version of earlyReading and information about it can be found here.

Subtest Schedule

Below outlines which subtests appear for each season as well as the order they appear in.

Kindergarten

Fall	Winter	Spring
1. Letter Sounds	1. Letter Sounds	1. Letter Sounds
2. Onset Sounds	2. Onset Sounds	2. Syllable Reading
3. Syllable Reading	3. Syllable Reading	3. Word Segmenting
4. Concepts of Print	4. Word Segmenting	4. Sight Words

Grade 1

Fall	Winter	Spring
1. Sight Words	1. Sight Words	1. Sight Words
2. Word Segmenting	2. Word Segmenting	2. Word Segmenting
3. Syllable Reading	3. Syllable Reading	3. Syllable Reading
4. Sentence Reading	4. CBMreading Spanish	4. CBMreading Spanish