Hello Year One Parents,
I hope you had a lovely weekend
– Week Six already! I cannot believe it!
Throughout this week, 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)
Ms. Kirsty Darcy 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
