Morphological Awareness Test for Reading and Spelling (MATRS) Complete Kit

Kenn Apel, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Victoria S. Henbest, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D.

Overview

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.

Contains Companion Materials

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.

Reviews

Jan Wasowicz, Ph.D, CCC-CLP, BCS-CL

“MATRS is a much-needed and very timely contribution to the field of literacy assessment. At a moment when the roles of spoken language and morphology in literacy is gaining broader recognition--including the inclusion of morphology in the International Dyslexia Association's revised definition of dyslexia--MATRS gives professionals a standardized, norm-referenced tool to meaningfully assess students' morphological awareness skills.”

Deb Glaser, Ed.D.

“Finally! MATRS is the assessment we have been waiting for. Timely and easily implemented, MATRS gives teachers the information they need about students' morphological awareness.”

Stephanie Al Otaiba, Ph.D.

“Finally there is a reliable and valid norm-referenced assessment of morphological awareness to use with elementary-aged students!”

Young-Suk Grace Kim, Ed.D.

“The MATRS offers a psychometrically sound, normed assessment that ensures reliable, comparable results across diverse populations.”

Authors: Kenn Apel Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Victoria S. Henbest Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Yaacov Petscher Ph.D.

This product has additional materials available on the Brookes Download Hub.

• Audio Files
• Conversion of Raw Scores to Standard Scores and Percentiles
• Demonstration videos
• Examiner Administration Booklet
• Parent Guide to MATRS™
• Student Response Forms
• MATRS Technical Report