The “How to” Guide to Spelling Assessment

A spelling assessment is used to determine a student’s baseline spelling percentage,potential intervention goals, and, ultimately, the student’s spelling progress. Additionally,a spelling assessment can provide information about a student’s linguistic awarenessabilities such as phonemic awareness, orthographic pattern awareness, mentalgraphemic representations, and morphological awareness. In this paper, a case exampleis presented to describe the spelling assessment and analysis of spelling errors toultimately determine baseline spelling percentage and spelling intervention goals, basedon a multilinguistic approach.