Teacher of the Year Ceremony
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Connecticut Assessment Resource Guide for Specific Learning Disabilities in Reading and Written Expression


Appendix A: List of Assessments


For your reference, we have included a link to the CSDE Approved Menu of Research-based Grades K-3 Universal Screening Reading Assessments.

Acadience Reading K-6*

Acadience RAN*

aimswebPlus Early Literacy and Reading; aimswebPlus RAN*

Amira Learning*

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, 5th Edition (CELF-5)

Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, 5th Edition, Metalinguistics (CELF-5 Metalinguistics)

Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language, 2nd Edition (CASL-2)

Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test, 3rd Edition (CREVT-3)

Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing, 2nd Edition (CTOPP-2)

CORE Assessing Reading: Multiple Measures, Revised 2nd Edition

Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills, 8th Edition (DIBELS)*

easyCBM*

Expressive Language Test, 2nd Edition: Normative Update (ELT-2: NU)

Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test, 4th Edition (EOWPVT-4)

Expressive Vocabulary Test, 3rd Edition (EVT-3)

Feifer Assessment of Reading (FAR)

Gallistel-Ellis Test of Coding Skills (GE Test)

Gray Diagnostic Reading Tests, 2nd Edition (GDRT-2)

Gray Oral Reading Tests, 5th Edition (GORT-5)

Gray Silent Reading Tests (GSRT)

Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, 3rd Edition (KTEA-3)

Language Processing Test - Elementary, 3rd Edition (LPT-3: E)

Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Test, 3rd Edition (LAC-3)

The Listening Comprehension Test, 2nd Edition (LCT-2)

The Listening Comprehension Test - Adolescent: Normative Update (LCT-A: NU)

mCLASS DIBELS 8th Edition; mCLASS RAN; mCLASS Vocabulary*

Montgomery Assessment of Vocabulary Acquisition (MAVA)

Oral and Written Language Scales, 2nd Edition (OWLS-II)

Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, 5th Edition (PPVT-5)

The Phonological Awareness Profile

Phonological Awareness Test, 2nd Edition: Normative Update (PAT-2: NU)

Rapid Automatized Naming and Rapid Alternating Stimulus Tests (RAN/RAS)

Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test, 4th Edition (ROWPVT-4)

Social Language Development Test - Adolescent: Normative Update (SLDT-A: NU)

Social Language Development Test - Elementary: Normative Update (SLDT-E: NU)

Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language, 4th Edition (TACL-4)

Test of Adolescent and Adult Language, 4th Edition (TOAL-4)

Test of Auditory Processing Skills, 4th Edition (TAPS-4)

Test of Early Language Development, 4th Edition (TELD-4)

Test of Early Reading Ability, 4th Edition (TERA-4)

Test of Early Written Language, 3rd Edition (TEWL-3)

Test of Integrated Language and Literacy Skills (TILLS)

Test of Language Development - Intermediate, 5th Edition (TOLD-I: 5)

Test of Language Development - Primary, 5th Edition (TOLD-P: 5)

Test of Narrative Language, 2nd Edition (TNL-2)

Test of Phonological Awareness, 2nd Edition: PLUS (TOPA-2+)

Test of Pragmatic Language, 2nd Edition (TOPL-2)

Test of Reading Comprehension, 4th Edition (TORC-4)

Test of Word Finding, 3rd Edition (TWF-3)

Test of Word Reading Efficiency, 2nd Edition (TOWRE-2)

Test of Written Language, 4th Edition (TOWL-4)

Test of Written Spelling, 5th Edition (TWS-5)

Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, 4th Edition (WIAT-4)

Wide Range Achievement Test, 5th Edition (WRAT-5)

Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement (WJ IV)

Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ IV)

Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Oral Language (WJ IV)

Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests, 3rd Edition (WRMT-III)

Word Identification and Spelling Test (WIST)

The WORD Test - Elementary, 3rd Edition

The WORD Test - Adolescent, 2nd Edition