Spotlight On: Morphological Awareness Test for Reading and Spelling

Why MATRS Matters

• Solves the mystery of why some students struggle by catching often-overlooked MA difficulties and pinpointing skills these students need more support to develop.
• Supports better literacy outcomes by informing lesson plans that target specific aspects of morphological awareness.
• Gives results you can trust. The product of more than a decade of research, MATRS fills the need for a norm-referenced and standardized MA assessment tool.
• Facilitates progress monitoring with different versions of the MATRS forms for pre- and post-instruction.
• Is easy and intuitive to use, with detailed instructions, scripted tasks, short videos that demonstrate the tasks, and automatic standard score conversion.

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How it Works

MATRS consists of easy-to-implement subtests called tasks, administered by a reading specialist, speech-language pathologist, or other intervention specialist. There are a total of eight tasks in MATRS, and students complete four in each grade:

• Task 1: Segmenting (Grades 1 and 2)
• Task 2: Affix Identification (Grades 3, 4, 5, and 6)
• Task 3: Affix Meaning (Grades 1, 2, 3, and 4)
• Task 4: Suffix Choice (Grades 5 and 6)
• Task 5: Spelling Multi-Morphemic Words (Grades 4, 5, and 6)
• Task 6: Suffix Spelling (Grades 1, 2, and 3)
• Task 7: Spoken Relatives (Grades 1 and 2)
• Task 8: Written Relatives (Grades 3, 4, 5, and 6)

Following the clear directions in the Examiner Administration Booklet and demonstration videos, the examiner provides students with oral prompts and plays audio recordings to elicit and record responses. The test takes 35−45 minutes, and scoring is easy with the time-saving Excel scoring solution, which provides automated access to standard scores and percentile ranks. The MATRS kit also includes access to a full set of assessment materials for administering a follow-up test, so you can easily determine the effectiveness of interventions.

What to Get

Purchase the MATRS Complete Kit for everything you need: a detailed manual, Examiner Administration Booklet, and a pack of 10 Student Response Forms for each grade. You’ll also receive digital access to materials for follow-up testing, demonstration videos for each task, audio files, a Technical Report, and the MATRS Excel automated scoring solution. The MATRS kit includes all the components you need to successfully administer the test and conduct follow-up:

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