Scope of Skills Assessed
WACS assesses more subskills than most current reading assessments. Sub-skills within WACS are adaptive to a student’s performance. Students start with assessment questions at their expected level and move to easier or more difficult assessment questions depending on performance.
Computer-adaptive sequencing in WACS individualize the assessment questions quickly diagnosing each students needs in the following skill areas:
- Phonological awareness
Initial Sound
Blending
Segmenting
- Phonics
Letter Recognition
Letter Sound
Sight Words
Real Words
Non-words
- Vocabulary
- Listening Comprehension
- Reading Comprehension
