I have used the QPS for several years.
The "old" version has all real words both in isolation and in sentences. The
kids do best on this one. It shows you exactly what the student knows, what
they need to work on, and what they still need to learn.
The "new" version has nonsense words in isolation and real words in
sentences. (The sentences are the same for each version.) This gives a truer
picture of what the students know, but most don't do very well on the
nonsense part. The idea is that if the student can't apply the phonics they
know to nonsense words then the don't really know their phonics. This is
also a concept that is used with out dyslexia students. If the student
doesn't know a word and they don't know how to apply phonics rules, then
that new word is the same as a nonsense word.
Unfortunately we constantly tell our students to "sound out the words" when
about 45% of the words in the English language are ones that we can sound
out. The rest don't follow phonics rules.
I love the QPS and I really like the "new" version which has 3 versions. I
plan on using version A for BOY (which I have already done), version B for
MOY, and version C for EOY. I believe that it is published by Scholastic.
You can find different QPS versions on the internet, one of which included
real words and nonsense words.
Mary Ann
----- Original Message -----
From: <rdhee...@aol.com>
To: <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 9:21 PM
Subject: [MOSAIC] phonics screening
Greetings,
I was wondering if anyone has used the Quick Phonics Screener and your
thoughts.
I currently have a 3rd grader in my class with very poor fluency. She
has
weak phonics skills.
jen
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