The Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement includes six assessment tasks; running records, concepts about print, letter identification, word reading, writing vocabulary, and hearing and recording sounds in words.
Concepts About print (part of the Observation Survey - Clay) - Description of the tasks from the observation survey of early literacy achievement that focus on the knowledge students have about written language.
Writing vocabulary and hearing and recording sounds in words (part of the Observation Survey - Clay) - Describes two of the tasks from the observation survey of early literacy achievement: students writing down words that they know and writing words dictated to them.
View the video clips on the English Developmental Continuum for reading, writing, speaking and listening from 0.5: