The Early Grades

Reading Assessment

RETCHELLE T. PREMIA
Discussant
 I. What is EGRA?
II.Why Conduct an EGRA?
III.What emergent literacy
Outline skills does EGRA cater to?
IV.How to administer the
kindergarten, Grades 1,2, and
3 EGRA tools/materials
 EGRA stands for Early
Grades Reading
Assessment which is a
What is an
EGRA? standardized tool
recognized for
assessing early grade
reading.
 Every child is unique and
so is his/her
learning style. It has
Why Conduct become evident that in
Early Grade
Reading order to promote a child’s
Assessments? education and growth,
critical information needs
to be gathered on his
work and performance.
 EGRA helps in identifying
key skills and areas of
instruction that need to be
Why Conduct improved.
Early Grade
Reading It evaluates outcomes of
Assessments programs designed to
? improve literacy, and informs
the education sector on
strategic planning, resource
allocation, and budgeting.
 1. Book and Print Knowledge
2. Letter Name Knowledge
What does
3. Letter Sound Knowledge
EGRA as an
assessment 4. Initial Sound Identification
tool 5. Familiar Word Reading
include ? 6. Invented Word Decoding
(Kindergarten 7. Oral Reading Fluency
Level) 8. Reading Comprehension
9. Listening Comprehension
 1. Book and Print Knowledge
What does 2. Letter Name Knowledge
3. Letter Sound Knowledge
EGRA as
4. Initial Sound Identification
an 5. Familiar Word Recognition
assessmen 6. Invented Word Recognition
t tool 7. Oral Reading Fluency
include ? 8. Reading Comprehension
(Grade 1) 9. Listening Comprehension
10.Dictation
 1. Letter Name Knowledge
2. Letter Sound Knowledge
What does
3. Initial Sound Identification
EGRA
4. Familiar Word Reading
include as
5. Invented Word Reading
an
6. Oral Reading Fluency
assessmen
t tool? 7. Reading Comprehension
(Grade 2 pretest 8. Listening Comprehension
and postest) 9. Dictation
 1. Letter Name Knowledge
What does 2.Letter Sound Knowledge
EGRA 3.Initial Sound Identification
include as 4.Familiar Word Reading
an 5.Invented Word Reading
assessmen 6.Oral Reading Fluency
t tool? 7. Reading Comprehension
(Grade 3) 8.Listening Comprehension
9.Dictation
 1. Prepare both the TEACHER’S MATERIAL and PUPIL’S
MATERIAL
2. Secure a stopwatch.
3. Familiarize yourself GENERALLY with both tools.

How to 4. Familiarize yourself with the INSTRUCTIONS that are

attached to each TASK.
administer the 5. Provide yourself with the following:

EGRA? a. 2 pencils – one for scoring, marking errors that

examinees make, and jotting down reading behaviors; another one
(pre- for the child’s use during the dictation part.

administration) b. spare pieces of paper for your markings

c. paper for the examinee ( according to grade level)
NOTE: Maintain an eye to eye contact with the examinee. Never
wear sunglasses.
 1.Get hold of the TEACHER’S MATERIAL. (It’s
actually the EGRA toolkit)
2.Give the PUPIL’S MATERIAL to the examinee. (It’s
actually the pupil’s stimuli booklet)
How to 3.Do some prompts that will make the examinee feel
administer the that you’re just going to conduct a reading game. NO
PRESSURES must be felt by the examinee.
EGRA? 4.ESTABLISH FRIENDSHIP WITH THE EXAMINEE
BEFORE GETTING STARTED.
(during 5.Start the administration per TASK.
administration) 6.Give clear instructions to the examinee. These are
found in the toolkit. (TEACHER’S MATERIAL)
7.Be DISCRETE in marking errors that examinees
make.
8.Clearly mark any incorrect responses with a slash (/).
 8. Count self-corrections as correct.
9. If you’ve already marked the self-corrected responses as
incorrect, circle the letter and proceed.

How to 10. Stay quiet, except when providing answers as follows: (early
stop rule)
administer a. If the child hesitates for 3 seconds, provide the
correct response; point to the next and say…”Sige padayon la.”
the EGRA?
b. Mark the response you provided to the child as
incorrect.
(during c. If the examinee does not give a single correct
administration) response on the first line, say….”Salamat.” Discontinue this
task, then, check the box at the bottom and proceed to the
next task.
d. Record time remaining on stopwatch (if the examinee
completes the task with number of seconds required)
 e. If examinee reaches 60 seconds
say…”Undang na.” Mark the final read with a
bracket.
11. Two tasks are not timed and these are: initial
How to sound identification and listening comprehension
administer 12.In the dictation part, read the sentence once, at
about one word per second. Then, give the
the EGRA? examinee a pencil and paper.
13.Read the sentence a second time, pausing 5
(during seconds between groups of words. Wait up to 15
administration) seconds ( if the examinee does not finish) , and
read the whole sentence again.
14.Remember to write the student code on the
dictation task.
 11. After conducting the tasks, say…”Tapos na kita
han aton mulay han pagbasa,”
How to 12.Commend the examinee by saying, “Makarit ngan
administer maupay an imo ginbuhat.”
the EGRA? 13.Say, “Salamat han imo bulig.”

(post Note: You may give the examinee a reward like

administration) candies or any sweets.

14. Prepare the templates for scoring!

Thank You!
Thank
You!!!