PAT 2 (Phonological Awareness Test 2)

The Phonological Awareness Test 2 is a standardized assessment of children's phonological awareness, phoneme-grapheme correspondences, and phonetic decoding skills. Test results help educators focus on those aspects of a child's oral language that may not be systematically targeted in classroom reading instruction. Test Description This test assesses a student's awareness of the oral language segments that comprise words (i.e., syllables and phonemes). The test is comprehensive and includes a wide variety of tasks; performance on each of these tasks has been correlated with success in early reading and spelling. The straightforward, developmental format lets you easily tease out specific skills and plan effective interventions. Subtests Rhyming: Discrimination and Production—identify rhyming pairs and provide a rhyming word Segmentation: Sentences, Syllables, and Phonemes—dividing by words, syllables and phonemes Isolation: Initial, Final, Medial—identify sound position in words Deletion: Compound Words, Syllables, and Phonemes—manipulate root words, syllables, and phonemes in words Substitution With Manipulatives—isolate a phoneme in a word, then change it to another phoneme to form a new word Blending: Syllables and Phonemes—blend units of sound together to form words Graphemes—assess knowledge of sound/symbol correspondence for consonants, vowels, consonant blends, consonant digraphs, r-controlled vowels, vowel digraphs, and diphthongs Decoding—assess general knowledge of sound/symbol correspondence to blend sounds into nonsense words Invented Spelling (optional)—write words to dictation to show encoding ability Test Procedures All subtests are administered (Invented Spelling is optional). There are no basals or ceilings. A demonstration item is given for each subtest. If it is apparent that a student is unable to perform a task, administration of that task is discontinued, and a score of 0 is given for items not administered in that task. Directions are read aloud to the student and are printed on the test form. Spiral bound stimuli booklets (included in the test) are used with the Graphemes Subtest and Decoding Subtest. Eight color cubes (included with the test) are used for the Substitution Subtest.