Literacy Professional Learning Resource – Assessment
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VELS level 1 & 2
This section provides tools, techniques and assessment practices for literacy and reviews of commonly used assessment tasks for VELS level 1 & 2.
- Assessment advice - a definition of assessment and its purposes. Introduction and link to Assessment Professional Learning Modules.
- Assessing literacy using the standards and progression points - describes standards, progression points and assessment maps and their use in assessing student achievement.
- Assessment to support literacy learning - assessment tools and techniques suitable for use with students at this level.
- 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.
- Tell Me: A collaborative language activity - description of an assessment task based on student's retelling of texts read to them.
- 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: