Morphological Awareness Test for Reading and Spelling (MATRS)

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.