The Towre is a nationally normed measure of word reading accuracy and fluency.
Because it can be administerd very quickly, the test provides and efficient means of monitering the growth of two kinds of word reading skills that are critical in the developmental of overall reading ability: the ability to accurately recognise familiar words as whole units or ' sight words' and the ability to ' sound out' words quickly.
TOWRE contains two subtests: The Sight Word Efficiency (SWE) subtests assesses the number of real printed words that can be accurately identified withing 45 seconds, and the Phonetic Decoding Efficiency 9PDE) subtest measures the number of pronounceable printed nonwords that can be accurately decoded within 45 seconds.
