Part of the highly successful early intervention programme Reading Recovery for children experiencing reading and writing difficulties, this colourful reader has an extensive range of test materials to support the Concepts About Print task and develop children's reading readiness. The aim is at the end of the sessions, most of the struggling pupils will have caught up with their classmates and will read and write at a level appropriate for their age.
Part of the highly successful early intervention programme Reading Recovery for children experiencing reading and writing difficulties, this colourful reader has an extensive range of test materials to support the Concepts About Print task and develop children's reading readiness. The aim is at the end of the sessions, most of the struggling pupils will have caught up with their classmates and will read and write at a level appropriate for their age.
Running Records for Classroom Teachers explains how to accurately record what children say and do as they read any book, and how teachers can score and interpret these records. When these standard recording and score procedures area used, Running Records provide accurate and reliable assessments of children's reading. Classroom teachers use records of text reading to check how well a text is matched to a child's reading, monitor the progress children are making, and compare and group students in their class. Running Records have been found to be good text reading assessments in many research studies. They provide different information from that obtained from tests of letters, sounds and words in isolation. Teachers find that close observation and recording of students' behaviour informs their understanding of how young children learn to read and allows them to provide appropriate learning opportunities."--Cover.
An easy-to-administer-and-score task. It looks too simple to be very useful but with it we can easily predict which young children need extra help with learning English. Giving this assessment to individual children will help the teacher to become a better judge of a how a child's oral language is changing. The items can be used to evaluate whether a new teaching programme is having any effect. Change can be captured over two points of time. If the school has introduced some new or special instruction, Biks and Gutches can be used to evaluate its effectiveness. Results could point to the rate and kind of change that has occurred as a result of special attention. For children who speak a dialect of English, the test can answer questions like this. Has the children's control over the rules for inflections of the standard dialect increased?
New full-color alternative to Sand and Stones, this "Concepts About Print" test can be used with the new entrant or nonreader, enabling the child to point to certain features as the examiner reads the book. An Observation Survey presents the theoretical background, administration details, and scoring interpretation of the tests.
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