Reading Assessment Inventory List 

Name of Assessment  Skills it Assesses  Age Range  Bibliographic 

Information 

Renaissance STAR  A comprehensive  K-12  https://www.renaissa

Reading Assessment  literacy assessment  nce.com/products/star
that assess 46  -reading/ 
reading skills 

STAR Early Literacy  Reading, Language,  K-3  https://www.renaissa

Vocabulary, and  nce.com/products/star
Numeracy  -early-literacy/ 

San Diego Quick  Word Recognition  K-11  https://www.cibhs.org

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CORE Phonics Survey  Phonics and Phonics  K-12  http://cbl.jordandistric

related skills  t.org/files/CORE-PHON
ICS-SURVEY.pdf 

PPVT-4: Peabody  Vocabulary  2.6 y.o -90+ y.o  https://www.pearsona

Picture Vocabulary  ssessments.com/store
Test 4th Edition  /usassessments/en/St
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ssments/Academic-Le
arning/Brief/Peabody-
Picture-Vocabulary-Te
st-%7C-Fourth-Edition/
p/100000501.html 

Gates MacGinitie   Comprehensive  K-12, Adult  https://www.riversidei

reading assessment,  nsights.com/solutions/
give a general level of  gates-macginitie-read
reading achievement  ing-tests?tab=0 

GRADE: Group  A diagnostic reading  K-12  https://www.pearsona

Reading Assessment  test that determines  ssessments.com/store
and Diagnostic  what development  /usassessments/en/St
Evaluation  literacy skills a student  ore/Professional-Asse
has mastered  ssments/Academic-Le
arning/Reading/Grou
p-Reading-Assessmen
t-and-Diagnostic-Eval
uation-Online/p/1000
01903.html 
CTOPP-2:  Assesses phonological  4 y.o -24 y.o.  https://www.stoeltingc
Comprehensive Test  awareness, memory  o.com/comprehensive
of Phonological  and rapid naming,  -test-of-phonological-
Processing  yielding quotients in  processing-ctopp.html 
phonological 
awareness, 
phonological memory, 
and rapid naming 

Bender Gestalt II  Measure Visual-Motor  3 y.o.-85+ y.o  https://www.wpspubli

development and  sh.com/bender-gestalt
psychological  -ii-bender-visual-moto
development  r-gestalt-test-second-
edition 

Jerry John’s Basic  Grade level reading,  K-12  https://k12.kendallhunt

Reading Inventory  fluency,  .com/product/basic-re
comprehension,  ading-inventory-kinde
vocabulary, oral  rgarten-through-grade
reading accuracy  -twelve-and-early-liter
acy-assessments 

DIBELS 8th  Letter naming Fluency,  K-8  https://dibels.uoregon.

Edition:Dynamic  Phonemic  edu/assessment/dibel
Indicators of Basic  Segmentation Fluency,  s/dibels-eighth-editio
Early Literacy Skills  n 
Nonsense Word 
Fluency, Word 
Reading Fluency, Oral 
Reading Fluency 

ERDA 2nd Edition:  Phonemic Awareness,  K-3  https://images.pearso

Early Reading and  Phonics, Fluency,  nassessments.com/im
Early Reading  Vocabulary,  ages/tmrs/tmrs_rg/Ea
Diagnostic  Comprehension  rlyReadandERDA2.pdf 
Assessment 

TOWRE 2: Test of Word  Measures the ability to  6 y.o.- 24 y.o.  https://www.proedinc.
Reading Efficiency  pronounce printed  com/Products/13910/t
2nd edition   words and  owre2-test-of-word-re
phonemically regular  ading-efficiencysecon
nonwords accurately  d-edition-complete-kit.
and fluently  aspx 

GDRT-2: Gray  Letter/Word  6 y.o. - 13 y.o.  https://www.proedinc.

 Diagnostic Reading  Identification,  com/Products/10965/
Test 2nd Edition  Phonetic Analysis,  gdrt2-gray-diagnostic-
Reading Vocabulary,  reading-testssecond-e
and Meaningful  dition.aspx 
Reading. 
Supplemental subtests 
include: Listening 
Vocabulary, Rapid 
Naming, and 
Phonological 
Awareness. 

DOLCH Sight Word  Assesses fluency and  1st-3rd grade  https://education.wm.

Assessment  automaticity of  edu/centers/ttac/docu
common sight words  ments/webinars/lang
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tdocs/Lesson%209/do
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ent.pdf