In some phonological awareness (PA) and phonics recordings you receive, students are asked to break down each sound in a word. For example: “Say "cup". Say the sounds you hear in "cup".
This skill is called segmentation, and we want to provide some additional guidance around scoring these types of recordings.
For segmentation recordings, a student’s response is correct only if each sound in the word is said individually. To separate the sounds, the student should take at least a slight pause in between the sounds. Below are some examples of how you should score these recordings:
1.
Listen to the recording:
Notes: The student segmented “egg” correctly, so you would submit this without any markings.
2.
Listen to the recording:
Notes: The student did not separate the sounds in “if” at all, so you would cross out the text and insert the student’s utterance of “if.”
3.
Listen to the recording:
Notes: This student said the /k/ sound individually, but did not separate /u/ and /p/, so you would cross out “u- p-” in the text and insert what the student said.
4.
Listen to the recording:
Notes: The student segmented all 3 sounds, but said the 1st and 3rd sounds in the wrong order. You would cross out the 1st and 3rd sounds and insert what the student said.