Notes

Marie M. Clay
230 pages
illustrations (some colour)
Distributed in NZ by Scholastic New Zealand Ltd Previous edition: 2013 Contents include: Observing change in early literacy behaviours -- Reading and writing : processing the information in print -- Assisting young children making slow progress -- Observation task for Concepts About Print -- Taking records of reading continuous texts -- Observation task for Letter Identification -- Observation task for Word Reading -- Observation task for Writing Vocabulary -- Observation task for Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words (Revised) -- Summarising the Observation Survey results -- The teacher and the observations -- Achievement stanines -- Appendices. Background to the Observation Survey ; Validity and reliability reports for the Observation Survey tasks ; A study to develop a new version of the Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words task ; New Zealand norms for the Observation Survey ; Canadian norms for the Observation Survey ; United Kingdom (England and Wales) norms for the Observation Survey ; United States norms for the Observation Survey ; Ohio Word Test ; Duncan Word Test ; Original observation task for Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words
Summary: An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement 4th edition provides teachers and school systems with essential information about how to assess young children's progress in literacy learning. The six tasks of the Observation Survey are used by teachers across the world to explore children's knowledge of early reading and writing, to monitor progress, guide instruction and reliably identify children for supplementary assistance. This fourth edition includes two new developments: - a revised task for assessing children's phonemic awareness and sound-letter knowledge is more sensitive to different rates of progress and to the difficulties some children might have and updated norms for five of the Observation Survey tasks will enable teachers and schools to more accurately monitor and compare the progress of five-to-seven-year-old children across different aspects of literacy learning