An Observation Survey: Of Early Literacy Achievement

by Clay, Marie M.

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2nd

ISBN13:

9780325009292

ISBN10:

0325009295

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Nonspecific Binding

Pub. Date:

7/1/2002

Publisher(s):

Greenwood

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An Observation Surveyhas been used in educational systems worldwide. It has introduced thousands of teachers to ways of observing children's progress in the early years of learning about literacy. It has also helped them determine which children need supplementary teaching. Now the revised Second Edition updates this important sourcework with new data, ideas, and implementations from U.S. and U.K. classrooms.

Introduction

(1)

For whom is this book written?

(1)

Behind these observations there are theoretical rationales

(2)

Observing change in early literacy behaviours

(10)

An introduction to systematic observation

(7)

Observation in classrooms

(1)

Observing individual progress

(1)

Measuring outcomes

(1)

Measuring abilities

(1)

Assessments that guide our teaching

(1)

Observing oral language

(1)

Observing emerging literacy

(1)

Observing school entrants

(2)

Standardised tests are poor measures of slow progress

(1)

Systematic observation

(1)

Characteristics of observation tasks

(1)

Reading and writing: processing the information in print

(9)

The reading process

(4)

The writing process

(3)

The blank page

(1)

Seeing print from two vantage points

(1)

Assisting young children making slow progress

(14)

Traditional approaches

(3)

Early intervention

(3)

The sensitive observation of reading behaviour

(2)

The early detection of literacy learning difficulties

(4)

A teacher's observation of one child's progress

(2)

Concepts About Print

(12)

Revealing what children know

(1)

On entry to school

(1)

How much do children need to know about print?

(1)

Reading to the children

(1)

Observing progress

(1)

Using the Concepts About Print observation task

(6)

Administration

(5)

Scoring

(1)

The interpretation of Concepts About Print scores

(1)

Achia's critique of this task

(1)

Taking records of reading continuous texts

(33)

Reading the messages

(1)

Another view

(1)

Records are taken to guide teaching

(1)

Records are taken to assess text difficulty

(1)

Records are taken to capture progress

(1)

Compare two Running Records on the same text

(1)

Taking a Running Record

(4)

What does skilled record-taking look like?

(1)

Two things to avoid

(1)

Select children who will make practising easier

(1)

Select some texts for practising

(2)

How to record what you see and hear

(1)

Another book read well

(1)

Why use standard procedures?

(6)

Conventions for recording

(3)

Check directional movement

(1)

Describe the reading behaviour recorded

(1)

Assessment and comprehension

(1)

A record before scoring

(1)

How to score errors and self-corrections

(3)

Some conventions for scoring the records

(2)

Some other good practices

(1)

How to quantify the Running Record

(1)

Records for two competent readers

(2)

Emma's reading

(1)

Claire's reading

(1)

Interpreting the Running Record

(3)

Think about the errors in the record

(1)

Scan the record to answer two other questions

(1)

Now look at the self-corrections

(1)

Consider the pattern of responses

(1)

Some common faults

(2)

Understanding the reading process

(1)

In older readers look for different signs of progress

(1)

Records of individual and group progress

(4)

Many uses for Running Records

(4)

School entry checks

(1)

For teaching individuals

(1)

For teaching groups

(1)

Evidence of emphasis: what things get attention in your programme?

(3)

Observation tasks for Letter Identification, Word Reading, Writing Vocabulary, and Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words

(39)

Letter Identification

(9)

Administration

(1)

Scoring the record

(3)

Interpreting Letter Identification scores

(1)

Limited prediction from Letter Identification

(1)

Cautions about assessing letter-sound relationships

(1)

An early awareness of alphabetic knowledge

(1)

Word Reading

(6)

Administration

(4)

What the Word Reading task does not do

(1)

Other `first' word reading tests (Canberra, Ohio, Duncan)

(1)

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