Up, And & Out Test By James W. Cunningham

1. Up, And & Out Test By James W. Cunningham

2. Rationale This subtest is an indicator of a student’s ability to recognize frequently occurring onsets (Cunningham et al 1999) in word decoding. It should not be used alone to test a student’s word identification abilities. It should only be given after a complete Whole-to-Part Stage I assessment has been completed and a student’s profile indicates difficulties in the area of word identification, specifically decoding.

3. Directions for administering • Begin by showing the student the slides with the words up, and, or out. Make sure they can read these three words. Then, explain that the student will be reading words that are nonsense words that all end with up, and, or out. Give the student 3-5 seconds for each word. Write down exactly what the student says. Each word is followed by a black screen in order to give you time to take notes or get the child’s attention. • Ask students to try to read every word on the list. • It is important that the student blends the onset with an ending. The goal is not to see if the child knows letter-sound correspondence, but if the child can use that knowledge to read and unfamiliar word.

4. Examples

5. up

7. and

9. out

11. zup

13. zand

15. zout

16. Words Begin on Next Slide

17. scup

19. snand

21. grup

23. spup

25. tup

27. strout

29. pand

31. fout

33. bup

35. trand

37. cout

39. plup

41. chup

43. yand

45. rup

47. fland

49. crup