UNESCO Institute for Statistics

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics

• Reading Components in LAMP
• (Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme)
• Manuel Cardoso

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Emerging readers take the Reading Components
assessment
BackgroundQuestionnaire
lt7
Filter (17 PDN items)
Booklet 1 or 2 (PDN)
gt8
PDN stands for Prose, Documents, and Numeracy,
the three domains of LAMP
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Reading Components Exercises

1. Vocabulary
2. Digit naming
3. Rapid digit naming
4. Lowercase letter naming
5. Uppercase letter naming
6. Rapid letter naming (lowercase)
7. Word recognition (high frequency words
   lowercase)
8. Rapid word recognition (same as previous)
9. Decoding (rare words non-words)
10. Rapid decoding (same as previous)
11. Sentence processing (oral reading silent
    reading, timed)
12. Passage fluency (oral reading silent reading,
    timed)

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Examples of profiles

• Non-readers are unable to identify one fifth of
  the letters in their alphabet.
• Incipient letter readers identify between 1/5 and
  ½ of the letters in their alphabet.
• Developing letter readers identify more than half
  of the letters in their alphabet.
• Incipient and Developing categories are then
  applied to other skills such as sentence
  comprehension and text comprehension

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Thank you!

• m.cardoso_at_unesco.org