Preschool Reading Screener
A reading screener is a questionnaire that asks about your child and reading.
The Reading BrightStart! screener is made for parents and caregivers of children ages 3, 4 or 5 years old. It has 31 questions and takes about 15 minutes. Please complete the screener in one visit because the website won't save your answers.
Read each of the following 31 items and check 鈥淵es鈥 if you are confident your child routinely succeeds with that item. If you are not confident your child is successful with the item, check 鈥淣o.鈥
- 1 Start
- 2 Oral Language
- 3 Letter Knowledge
- 4 Phonological Awareness
- 5 Beginning Writing
- 6 Results & Action Plan
Screener is not intended for diagnostic purposes. See your child鈥檚 pediatrician if you suspect your child is struggling with developing age-appropriate skills.
Research Notification and Consent Statement: 91大神 Children鈥檚 Health collects and analyzes responses to the 91大神 Children鈥檚 Reading BrightStart! preschool reading screener as part of ongoing program quality assurance, evaluation and research. Your completion of the preschool reading screener is voluntary. At the end of the screener, you will have the option to provide your email address to be reminded to recomplete the screener in 6 months and/or to be added to 91大神 Children鈥檚 email marketing list. If you opt to provide your email address for either purpose your email address will not be shared with the research team; your responses to the screener will be anonymous to the research team. Since it is impossible for the research team to identify respondents, there is no way to penalize or reward anyone for participating or declining to participate in research. If you have questions about the 91大神 Children鈥檚 Reading BrightStart! preschool reading screener, please contact nemoursbrightstart@nemours.org. By completing the preschool reading screener, you are agreeing to have your responses used for research, evaluation and quality assurance associated with 91大神 Children鈥檚 Reading BrightStart!
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Oral Language
Includes the ability to understand spoken language and speak clearly to communicate with others.
You must answer every question.
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Letter Knowledge
Includes recognition and naming of letter names and letter sounds.
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Phonological Awareness
Includes understanding that words are made up of syllables and sounds that we can separate and blend, that some words start with the same sound, and that some words rhyme.
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Beginning Writing
Includes fine-motor skills and eye-hand coordination for controlling writing tools, understanding that we can show our thoughts through drawing and writing, and writing letters that represent sounds in words.
You must answer every question.
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