Reading Skills Competency Tests : competency tests for basic reading skills

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Personal Author:

Barbe, Walter B.

Publication Information:

West Nyack, N.Y. : Center for Applied Research in Education, 1999

ISBN:

9780130213297

Subject Term:

Reading Skills Competency Tests

Reading -- Ability testing

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Barbe, Walter Burke, 1926-

Sparkman, Brandon B.

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Each level unit provides a sequential Reading Skills Checklist of the skills to be mastered at that grade/reading level for easy individual record keeping, plus 40-70 short, reproducible informal Reading Skills Competency Tests for measuring students' mastery of each skill on the Checklist at that level. Each also includes a Group Summary Profile for recording class progress and a separately printed wall chart that maps out the entire reading skills progression from Readiness through Advanced levels.

Author Notes

Walter Burke Barbe was an educator, publisher, and editor. He was born on October 30, 1926 in Miami, Florida. He served in the U. S. Army, 1944-1946.

His career included editor-in-chief of Highlights for Children magazine from 1971 to 1989; editor of the Zaneer-Bloser Publishing Company, which was owned by Highlights; and president and publisher of Modern Learning Press. He published textbooks and books on education one of which was Psychology and Education of the Gifted (1965). He was a founding member of the International Reading Association. He had a distinguished career in higher education as professor and department chair of special education at Kent State University, adjunct professor in Human Services at Ohio State University and Sergeis Gambal Distinguished Professor at Keystone College in Pennsylvania. He retired in 1992.

He published 11 books and more than 200 professional journal articles. After he retired in 1992, he, along with Kurt Reed, wrote two books on the local history of Wayne County in Pennsylvania, The History of Wayne County, Pennsylvania and The Glass Industry in Wayne County, Pennsylvania.

His awards and honors included the International Reading Association's Distinguished Service Award (1992) and the School Study Council of Ohio Award in Recognition of Dedication to Education.

Walter B. Barbe died on October 15, 2020 at his home in Pennsylvania, at the age of 93.

(Bowker Author Biography)

About the Competency Tests for Basic Reading Skills	p. 3
How to Use the Competency Tests and Check List	p. 9
Begin at the Beginning	p. 9
Recording on the Check List	p. 10
Conferencing with the Pupil	p. 10
Conferencing with Parents	p. 10
Conferencing with Professional Staff	p. 11
Providing Check Lists to the Next Grade Level Teacher	p. 11
Making a Group Summary Profile from Individual Check Lists	p. 11
Ensuring the Sequential Presentation of Skills	p. 11
Using the Sequential Skill Plan Chart	p. 12
Reading Skills Check List--Fourth Level	p. 13
Group Summary Profile--Fourth Level	p. 15
Reading Skills Competency Tests: Fourth Level	p. 19
I. Vocabulary
A. Word Recognition	p. 20
1. Knows New Words in Content Fields	p. 20
2. Recognizes Similarities of Known Words	p. 24
a. Compound Words	p. 24
b. Root Words	p. 26
c. Suffixes and Prefixes	p. 28
d. Plurals	p. 30
e. Hyphenated Words	p. 32
f. Contractions	p. 34
3. Recognizes Unusual Characteristics of Words	p. 36
B. Word Meaning	p. 38
1. Develops Ability in Getting Meaning from Context	p. 38
2. Uses New Words in Sentences to Show Meaning	p. 40
3. Knows Punctuation	p. 42
a. Italics	p. 42
b. Quotation Marks	p. 42
c. Parenthesis	p. 42
d. Exclamation Marks	p. 42
4. Use of Map Skills	p. 44
C. Review Dolch Words	p. 48
II. Word Attack Skills
A. Structural Analysis	p. 50
1. Knows and Applies Rules for Syllables	p. 50
a. Each Syllable Contains a Vowel and a Single Vowel Can Be a Syllable	p. 52
b. Suffixes and Prefixes Are Syllables	p. 54
c. Root Word Is Not Divided	p. 56
d. Vowel Followed by Two Consonants	p. 58
e. Vowel Followed by Single Consonant, Consonant Begins the Second Syllable	p. 60
f. Word Ends in le Preceded by Consonant	p. 62
g. Letter x with Preceding Vowel	p. 64
h. Letters ck Go with Preceding Vowel and End the Syllable	p. 66
2. Knows Accent Clues	p. 68
a. First Syllable Is Usually Accented	p. 70
b. Beginning Syllables de, re, be, in and a	p. 72
c. Endings That Form Syllables Are Usually Unaccented	p. 74
d. CK Following a Single Vowel Is Accented	p. 76
3. Knows Suffixes and Prefixes	p. 78
a. Suffixes	p. 82
b. Prefixes	p. 86
B. Phonic Analysis	p. 90
1. Knows Phonic Skills	p. 90
a. Single Consonants and Blends	p. 90
b. Short and Long Vowels	p. 98
c. Vowel Teams	p. 100
2. Knows Vowel Rules	p. 102
a. In Attacking a Vowel Sound Try First the Short Sound; If the Word Then Doesn't Make Sense Try the Long Sound	p. 104
b. Are Usually Short When They Appear as Single Vowels and Are Followed by a Consonant	p. 106
c. Vowels Are Usually Given the Long Sound When They Appear Alone and Are the Last Letters of a Word	p. 108
d. When Two Vowels Appear Together in a Word, the First Vowel Is Long and the Second is Silent	p. 110
e. In a Short Word Containing Two Vowels Where One of the Vowels Is a Final e, the First Vowel Will Have a Long Sound While the Final e Is Silent	p. 112
C. Uses Dictionary and Glossary	p. 114
1. Alphabetical Order	p. 114
a. Order of Letters in Alphabet	p. 114
b. Alphabetical Arrangement of Words	p. 116
2. Knows to Divide the Dictionary to Determine in Which 1/3 the Word May Be Found	p. 118
3. Knows the Meaning and Use of the Phonetic Spelling That Follows in Parenthesis Each Word in the Dictionary	p. 120
4. Knows the Use of the Pronunciation Key	p. 122
5. Knows to Select the Meaning Which Fits Best According to the Context in Which the Word Is Used	p. 124
6. Knows the Meaning and Use of Guide Words	p. 126
7. Knows the Meaning and Use of the Secondary Accent Mark	p. 128
III. Comprehension
A. Finding the Main Idea	p. 130
1. Choosing Titles for Material Read	p. 130
2. Can Identify Key Words and Topic Sentences	p. 132
3. Summarizing	p. 134
B. Finding Details	p. 136
1. Finding Specific Information	p. 136
2. Interpreting Descriptive Words and Phrases	p. 138
3. Selecting Facts to Remember	p. 142
4. Selecting Facts to Support Main Idea	p. 144
5. Using Study Guides, Charts, Outlines	p. 146
6. Verifying Answers	p. 148
7. Arranging Ideas in Sequence	p. 150
C. Creatve Reading	p. 152
1. Able to Interpret Story Ideas (Generalize)	p. 152
2. Able to See Relationships	p. 154
3. Able to Identify the Mood of a Reading Selection	p. 158
4. Able to Identify Author's Purpose	p. 162
5. Able to Identify Character Traits	p. 164
D. Formal Outlining	p. 166
1. Form	p. 166
a. Main Ideas	p. 166
b. Subordinate Ideas	p. 168
2. Talking from an Outline	p. 170
IV. Oral and Silent Reading
A. Understands Material at Grade Level	p. 172
B. Eye-Voice Span of Three Words in Oral Reading	p. 174
Barbe Reading Skills Check List Sequential Skill Plan (Chart)

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