TOPA 2+

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• Kindergarten
• Early Elementary
• Age ranges 5-8

Purpose

• Measures the students' ability to isolate individual phonemes in spoken words and their knowledge of relationsips between letters and phonemes
• Determines 'at risk' for early reading difficulties

Scoring

• Score 1 or 0
• Raw Scores are added and converted to SS

PROS

• Can be used in a large or small setting
• Can be used in general screening battery (relationship to early progress in reading)

CONS

• SUPER OLD - 2004
• Dialects of student and test administrator must be same
• Results at risk if dialect does not match or if child's cultural background does not include certain items

Conclusion

• Still is a good test that professionals can consitenly use with their young students that yield reliable data of phonological awareness.