Screening of Reading Readiness (SORR)
Daniel C. Miller, Ph.D. and Deborah Hammond Budge, Ph.D.
An Early Screener for Reading Readiness
The SORR is a comprehensive and time efficient screening instrument designed to assess reading readiness skills in children ages 4-6.
The SORR assesses reading readiness across 7 subtests and includes 1 supplemental subtest:
Phonemic Awareness
- Rhyming Words in Context – assesses the child's listening comprehension skills and knowledge of contextual rhymes. The child hears a sentence and is asked to complete the sentence with a rhyme (e.g., See you later _______ [alligator].
- Rhyming Words in Isolation – assesses the child's knowledge of phonological skills using rhymes. The child hears two words that rhyme and is asked to say another word that rhymes or sounds like the other two words (e.g., hat...bat...? [sat]).
- Identifying Sounds – assesses the child's ability to identify beginning, middle, and ending sounds in words with visual cues.
- Blending of Sounds– assesses the child's ability to identify the whole word that is spoken one phoneme at a time. Meaures auditory synthesis.
Auditory Memory
- Verbal List Learning – assesses the child's ability to recall a verbally presented list of words over repeated trials. Measures verbal intermediate memory and has a delayed recall component as well. Intrusion errors (words recalled that were not part of the presented list) are recorded as a qualitative behavior.
- Memory for Sentences – assesses verbal intermediate memory. The child is asked to recall a verbally presented sentence.
Verbal Fluency
- Rapid Picture Naming - assesses the child's verbal fluency. The child is asked to name a series of pictures as quickly as possible.
Print and Book Awareness (Supplemental)
- Print and Book Awareness - assesses the child's skills related to print and book awareness. For example, does the child know how to identify a page, a word, the cover of a book, etc.
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