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Standardized Assessment of Phonological Awareness Main features: The main feature of this test is to determine students ability to recognize phonemes and phonological awareness. Subtests in this test include the following: Rhyming Beginning, ending, and middle sounds Blending Segmenting Phoneme deletion Phoneme substitutions

This test is given to individual students which are intended to be in kindergarten and first grade. ”Phonological awareness precedes phonemic awareness, which is the awareness that phonemes are used to create words and can be changed to create new words. Phonological awareness and phonemic awareness is not the same thing as phonics. Phonics involves teaching students the correspondence between spoken sounds and written symbols.” (MelodyAM75, 2015) Standardized Assessment of Phonological Awareness or SAPA is most useful for diagnosing areas of struggle in beginning ready. SAPA can be used with children who appear to be behind their peers as a form of implementation of intervention. SAPA could also be used as pre diagnostic tool in the early education classroom. Many websites are created to for young children to help with mastery of these skills. Once diagnoses of these tests are available often teachers can guide parents in activities that will bolster the weak skills.

http://www.brighthubeducation.com/student-assessment-tools/85901-phonological-awareness-assessments/