MATRS™
TOOL NAME
Morphological Awareness Test for Reading and Spelling™ (MATRS™)
USE TO EVALUATE
Accurately identify students with morphological awareness deficits and plan differentiated literacy instruction and intervention
AGE RANGE
Grades1-6
COMPLETED BY
Speech-language pathologists, reading specialists, intervention specialists, dyslexia specialists, diagnosticians, school psychologists, special educators
TIME COMMITMENT
The test takes 35-45 minutes, and scoring is easy with the time-saving Excel scoring solution, which provides 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.
Accurately identify students with morphological awareness deficits and plan differentiated literacy instruction and intervention.
Morphological awareness—the ability to recognize, understand, and consciously use the smallest units of meaning in a word—is one of the most important skills for literacy development. Now there’s a comprehensive, reliable, and valid assessment tool for evaluating the morphological awareness skills that strongly predict concurrent and future reading and spelling abilities. For use with students in Grades 1-6, MATRS™ helps educators accurately identify students with morphological awareness deficits and plan differentiated literacy instruction and intervention.
Why MATRS?
- Assesses morphological awareness, a unique and significant predictor of literacy skills
- Helps educators determine what students know about morphemes and where they need more morphological awareness instruction
- Helps states meet literacy goals and mandates focused on students’ morphological awareness
- Developed by leading experts on morphological awareness through more than a decade of research
- Norm-referenced and standardized—4,060 students were included in the normative sample
- Easy and intuitive to use, with videos that demonstrate how to administer each task
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 order
The MATRS Kit contains 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.
Developers
What You'll Need
Includes
- Detailed manual
- Examiner Administration Booklet
- Pack of 10 Student Response Forms for each grade
PLUS, DIGITAL ACCESS TO:
- Materials for follow-up testing
- Demonstration videos for each task
- Audio files
- Technical Report
- The MATRS Excel automated score solution
