LEaPP Basic and Advanced Spelling Inventories

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.