The Burt Word Reading Test is an individually administered measure of an aspect of a child's word recognition skills. The Test Card consists of 110 words printed in differing sizes of type and graded in approximate order of difficulty. The child is asked to read as many words from the Test Card as he can and continues until ten consecutive words are read incorrectly. At this point he is given the opportunity to look at the remaining words to see if he can read any others.