This text examines the many purposes of assessment in early literacy development. Issues in early literacy assessment, assessment material, the purposes of literacy assessment, government policy, practice in schools, baseline assessment of literacy, and the need for new research measures of early literacy are all recurrent themes in the book. The author reviews and discusses three decades of policy and practice in assessing literacy development in the years three to five - from recognizing in the late 1960s that literacy in these years exists, to proposals in 1997 for official assessment of literacy at five years. "Recognising Early Literacy Development" reviews and evaluates a large number of existing texts and assessment instruments, and some LEA baseline assessment documents. The author considers the theoretical, political and educational purposes of literacy assessment, and discusses assessment practices as found in an original survey of assessment practice in one LEA. She explores the need for a new approach to measurement for research, which is more attuned to assessment for teaching, and the importance of appropriate approaches to finding out what young children know about literacy. The book includes the Sheffield Early Literacy Development Profile.
Systems for the Observation of Teaching & Learning
The best way to pinpoint what works and doesn't work in reading instruction is classroom observation - and this text aims to help educational stakeholders choose from available observation systems or design their own system. Each of the nine field-tested systems discussed has a different focus, such as assessing the effectiveness of early reading ......
Formerly a SkyLight publication. 25 Simple Things to Do for Literacy is culled from the book More than 100 Tools for Literacy in Today's Classroom. In addition to simple tasks to stimulate students' thinking and to help them become better readers and writers, each activity includes background information and instructions for conducting the activity. This ready-to-use guide is packed with strategies for improving comprehension of fictional and non-fictional texts.
This is the preschool and kindergarten teacher's guide to an innovative curriculum for creating a literacy-rich environment for children of all ability levels.
"Literacy is a right and not a privilege: a right that has been denied to an extraordinary number of citizens." Guided by this belief, the authors of the twenty-nine essays in The Right to Literacy discuss what literacy is, what keeps people from attaining it, and how we can help them attain it. The essays in this volume were originally presented ......
This book is the valuable Key to A New Arabic Grammar, the bestselling introduction to the Arabic language for over thirty years. Although A New Arabic Grammar is intended primarily as a teaching grammar not as a 'teach yourself' work, it has become clear that it is being used as a means of learning Arabic by many who have no teacher, and it is ......
