ABSTRACT

To complete your assessment/diagnosis of a child's reading strengths and needs, you will need to examine his/her knowledge of, and application of, word analysis skills. Word analysis skills include sight word recognition, phonics, morphemic analysis (structural analysis), and context clues. When the reader encounters an unknown word, he/she should apply one or more of these skills to identify the word and its meaning. Determining how a student deals with unfamiliar words and applies graphophonic (letter-sound units) and morphemic cues (meaning units of language) to unknown words will give you useful information as you plan reading instruction.