Using a reading test with meaningful texts you run the risk to estimate the reading skills of children sometimes better than they really are. Some children recognize words by their appearance (as pictures) and can even associate words from the context although they were actually not able to read them. This test was designed for the first four school years and consists of a meaningless text. In this case the child cannot associate words from memory but must read what is written. Thus the child´s ability of reading on the grapheme-level can be checked quite accurately.

The set consists of

· 10 test-patterns for the supervisor

· text for the child tested

· analysis-sheet for estimation