Purdue-LEaPP Assessment Toolkit
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Recommended Citation
Loudermill, Chenell and Greenwell, Tamar, "LEaPP Basic and Advanced Spelling Inventories" (2025). Purdue-LEaPP Assessment Toolkit. Paper 10.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284318096
DOI
10.5703/1288284318096
Date of this Version
10-2-2025
Keywords
affixes, blends, bossy r, closed syllables, complex consonants, digraphs, diphthongs, grapheme knowledge, open syllables, orthographic mapping, progress monitoring, point of instruction, r-controlled vowels, roots, spelling inventory, structured literacy, syllable junctures, VCe, vocalic r, vowel teams
Abstract
The LEaPP Basic and Advanced Spelling Inventories are educational tools to systematically map and track a learner’s ability to encode words containing spelling features along a progression. The Basic screener starts with single graphemes and closed syllable words and moves through additional concepts such as digraphs, blends, VCe, vocalic r, basic vowel teams, and basic roots and affixes. The Advanced screener starts with beginning advanced code such as blends and moves through additional advanced concepts such as vocalic r, vowel teams, diphthongs, complex consonants, roots, affixes, and syllable junctures. The screeners can be used in part or whole and can be repeated as needed for progress monitoring. This document contains directions for use, basic and advanced screening inventories with data analysis tables, learner response form, and a class composite form. The class composite form allows the educator to track performance of the entire class. Data from the spelling inventories can be mapped to the scope and sequence progress monitoring form to help determine point of instruction.