This test is an individual or group adminstered, norm-referenced measure of phonological awareness for children ages 5 through 8 years. It has two versions, a Kindergarten version and an Early Elementary version, that measure young children's ability to (a) isolate individual phonemes in spoken words and (b) understand the relationships between letters and phonemes in English.
The Kindergarten version can be administered any time during the kindergarten year but is likely to be most sensitive to individual differences during the second half of the year. This version uses two different item types to assess phonemic awareness. Ten Initial Sound-Same items require children to mark which of three words begins with the same sound as a target word. Ten Initial Sound-Different items require children to mark which word in a group of four words begins with a different first sound than the other three. A child's score for phonemic awareness is the number correct on each item type added together. The Letter-Sound subtest requires children to mark which letter, from a set of four, corresponds to a specific phoneme. The substest has 15 items, and the child's score for the test is the total number correct.
The Early Elementary version for children in first and second grades, is similar in structure to the Kindergarten version, except that the child must identify final sounds in words, which is a more difficult task. The 10 Ending Sound-Same items requires children to identify which of three words ends with the same sound as a target word, while the 10 Ending Sound-Different items asks children to mark which of a group of four words ends in a different sound than the others. As with the Kindergarten version, the number correct on both item types is summed to get one total score for phonemic awareness. The Letter-Sounds test for the Early Elementary version requires children to spell simple pseudowords that are given as the names of "funny animals." The words vary from two to five phonemes in length, and they are all single-syllable. The child's score is the total number of words spelled correctly.
The TOPA-2+ was normed on 2,085 students from 26 states; 1,035 for the Kindergarten version and 1,050 for the Early Elementary version. The sample is representative of the U.S. across several key demographic variables (i.e., geographic region, gender, race, ethnicity, family income, educational attainment of parents). The TOPA-2+ manual provides evidence of reliabiliy and validity.
The complete TOPA-2+ Kit includes an Examiner's Manual, 50 Kindergarten Summary Forms, 50 Early Elementary Summary Forms, 25 Student Booklets for Kindergarten, and 25 Student Booklets for Early Elementary all in a sturdy storage box. PE11880 $200.00
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