Skills Measured by the WIAT II Word Reading Subtest and the WJ III Letter Word Identification Test

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Skills Measured by the WIAT II Word Reading Subtest and the WJ III Letter Word Identification Test

		WIAT	WJ III
Approximate Grade Level	Skill	Items	Items
PreK-1	Matching alphabet letters	1-3	1
	Identifying alphabet letters	4-29	2-9, 11-14
	Identifying rhyming words	30-33	*
1-2	Identifying beginning sounds	34-36	*
	Identifying ending sounds	37-38	*
	Blending phonemes into words	39-41	*
	Matching sound to symbol	42-47	*
3+	Recognizing words	48-131	10, 15-76

* Note: Despite the fact that the WJ III appears to have no comparable WIAT II phonemic identification items, the WJ III has at least 3 phonemic awareness test on the cognitive and achievement portions of the test.