Hello Year One Parents,
Throughout Week 5, I will be conducting individual Literacy testing using an assessment called The Observational Survey. This assessment gives myself an insight into how your child reads and writes and from this information, how they can be better supported or extended within the classroom.
There are six tasks that each child completes and these include:
A Running Record (to monitor fluency and reading behaviours)
A word reading test (Burt Word)
Concepts about print (eg. Asks where is the beginning of the sentence, punctuation, sentence, word and letter recognition etc)
Word recognition Test (Duncan Word list)
Letter and Sound identification (both capital and lowercase)
Independent Writing task (involves the child writing down as many words within a given time frame focusing on spelling and sounding out)
Listening and Hearing test (Similar to dictation where children must listen to a sentence and write what they hear)
Mrs. Trish Dorrington will be replacing myself throughout the week, however I will still be around the school to see the children or yourselves if need be.
If you have any questions, please email me.
Thank you for your support
Miss Prowse
