7.+Early+Literacy+Assessment

**Early Literacy Assessment**

Another aspect of effectively teaching literacy to the early years is being able to assess the student’s ability and progress of their literacy skills. It is important that teachers are aware and understand what the expected standard of reading ability is for the year level that is being taught. If not teachers may have unreasonable expectations of how the children should be progressing and will not be able to give accurate and fair assessment. The main elements teachers need to recognise in the early stages of writing for assessing literacy are; written language, ideas and text conventions. Each of these categories are given a score out of 1 -5 to analyse and assess a child’s piece of writing. As children become more advanced with their writing the teacher can assess the child’s writing by analysing; ideas organisation, language and mechanics.

Teacher sitting next to a child to assess them in a non confrontational way so that the child does not feel their work is being critizied.



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