(WIST) Word Identification and Spelling Test
Ages: 7 through 18 years
Administration: Individual; 40 min.
The WIST meets teachers' need for detailed information that can be used to identify the areas in which students are having difficulty with reading and/or spelling and to develop appropriate instructional interventions. It includes both norm-referenced and informal assessments. The WIST specifically targets those aspects of reading that are most important for the identification and treatment of poor and disabled readers.
• Word Identification measures accuracy of sight recognition and ability to apply word attack
skills, and sight recognition of irregular high-frequency words
• Spelling assesses ability to spell words from dictation through recall of correct letter sequences for familiar words or ability to apply sound/symbol relationships and rules of English orthography, and recall of letter order in irregular high-frequency words
• Sound-Symbol Knowledge assesses ability to associate sound(s) (i.e., phonemes) with specific
letter(s) (i.e., graphemes). Three informal procedures provide additional diagnostic information
about the student's performance on the test items, sound-symbol skills, and errors peculiar to
written words
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Barbara A. Wilson, MEd / Rebecca H. Felton, PhD
The WIST Complete Kit includes:
• Manual
• Elementary Record Booklets(25)
• Secondary Record Booklets(25)
• Spelling Response Forms(50)
• Word Card-Regualr Words
• Word Card-Irregular Words
• Word Card-Letter/Pseudo Words
• Elementary Spelling Card
• Secondary Spelling Card
•Irregular Spelling Card
