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The Abecedarian Reading Assessment

Reading assessment tool designed to provide diagnostic information about early reading skills

The Abecedarian Reading Assessment (2002)
By Sebastian Wren, Ph.D. and Jennifer Watts, Ph.D.

The Abecedarian was designed to provide diagnostic information about early reading skills. This 52-page document is divided into six major areas:

  • Letter Knowledge
  • Phonological Awareness
  • Phoneme Awareness
  • Alphabetic Principle
  • Vocabulary
  • Decoding