Gallistel-Ellis Student Test Booklet

Description

• is a comprehensive measure of coding skills in reading and spelling
• measures whether a student can give the sounds for the various letters and units or clusters
• it measures whether the student can recognize and spell words made up of these sounds. 
• closed syllables with single consonants, blends and digraphs
• silent-e words; soft c and g
• vowel teams and vowel-r
• suffixes and modifiers such as s, ed, ing, y, tion and consonant-le
• multi-syllable and irregular words
• nonsense syllables – to enable the tester to determine if the student relies on sight memory or has truly “cracked the code”