Learning Opportunities

Part 1: TELL Overview

• Purpose and Overview (Administration Time, Components, Sequence)

Part 2: Administration of TELL and Scoring

• Testing Conditions and Procedures
• Icons, Test Booklet, Easels, Comprehensive Manual
• Template Repeated Throughout all eight sections
  • Objective of Section
  • Materials Needed in Preparation for Testing
  • Administration Instructions
  • Modelling, Learning, and Practise Item Instructions
  • Repetition and Prompting
  • Administration Rules

Part 3: Administration and Scoring (Authentic examples will be used throughout each test section to provide teachers with meaningful examples of child and student performance to work with and to serve as discussion and teaching points).

• Print Understanding
• Letter Knowledge and Naming
• Phonological Awareness
• Blending – Syllables
• Blending – Sounds
• Sound Identification – Initial
• Sound Identification – Final
• Segmenting – Syllables
• Segmenting – Sounds
• Oral Vocabulary
  • Pictured Nouns (Labels and Definitions)
  • Pictured Verbs (Labels and Definitions)
  • Non-Pictured Nouns (Definitions)
  • Non-Pictured Verbs (Definitions)
• Oral Narratives
• The Unusual Present Listening Comprehensions
• Going Shopping Five-Picture Story Generation
• Ice Cream at the Zoo Listening Comprehension Questions & Picture Story Recall
• Word Reading
• Oral Reading and Reading Comprehension
  • Read-Talk-Reread-Read (RTRR) – Running Record and Comprehension Questions
  • Read Story Pages - Running Record and Comprehension Questions
  • Reading Storybook - Running Record and Comprehension Questions
• Written Spelling and Writing
• Written Spelling
• Writing Sample

Part 4: Score Interpretation (Standard Scores, Percentile Ranks, Guidelines) and Use of Quick Charts

Part 5: Question and Answer time will be provided throughout the training sessions as well as for follow-up and clarification at the end of the day.