Designed for use as part of a total diagnostic language battery, the Test of Word Knowledge (TOWK) evaluates students' ability to understand and use vocabulary. By probing for indications of a semantic development and lexical knowledge.

Level 1 includes the following core subtests - Expressive Vocabulary, Word Definitions, Receptive Vocabulary and Word Opposites. Synonyms, for use with 5 to 8 year olds, is a supplementary subtest.

Level 2 includes the following subtests - Word Definitions, Multiple Contexts, Synonyms and Figurative Usage. Word Opposites, Receptive Vocabulary, Expressive Vocabulary. Conjunctions and Transition Words are supplementary subtests.

The Test of Word Knowledge (TOWK):

• Identifies students who lack the semantic skills and repertories that are the foundation of mature language use in thinking, learning and communication

• Can also be used to identify students who excel in semantic knowledge, thus making it a useful resource for gifted and talented assessment or on a valuable criterion-referenced measure of residual or recovered semantic knowledge following traumatic head injury or acquired aphasia 

• Two levels cover a broad age range and word knowledge skills

• Proven validity means you can rely on TOWK's results

• All TOWK stimuli are presented through visual and auditory modes to accommodate students who may be poor readers or who may be experiencing auditory memory problems.

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