Heather Coulter

EDU 474

Phonemic Awareness

6. Phonemic Awareness (Yopp-Singer Assessment)

The Yopp-Singer Assessment is a test for assessment phonemic awareness in children.

This assessment was completed for T, because she is a second grader, falling into the assessment

age range suggested of Kindergarten-second grade. Research demonstrates that there is

substantial evidence that phonemic awareness is strongly related to success in reading and

spelling acquisition.

T scored 18 out of 22 answers correct on the Yopp-Singer Assessment. This indicates

that she is mostly phonemically aware. She did miss “dog”, segmenting sounds into 2 (/d/og/)

instead of 3 sounds. She also missed “she”, segmenting it into 2 sounds instead of 3 (/sh/),

leaving off the long e sound. She also missed segmenting wave into 3 sounds, and instead only

segmented the /w/ sound from -ave. She also missed “three”, segmenting it into two sounds

instead of 3, only separating the long e sound from the word. The student mostly missed sounds

that contained digraphs, such as “she” and “three”- with trouble separating other sounds from the

digraph. She also struggled with separating sounds in a CVCe format word, such as “wave”, and

including long e sounds such as in “she”.

The information in the Yopp-Singer assessment indicate that T is developing phonemic

awareness. I can use the information from her assessment to determine that I can continue to

work with her on reading and segmenting words that contain digraphs, CVCe words, and long e

sounds at the end of words- to increase her phonemic awareness.