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An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement
What are young children learning as they engage with literacy instruction at school?
Are they experiencing success or falling behind? How soon can we tell?
An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Fourth Edition provides teachers and school systems with essential information about how to assess young children's progress in literacy learning.
The six tasks of the Observation Survey are used by teachers across the world to explore children's knowledge of early reading and writing, monitor progress, guide instruction, and reliably identify children for supplementary assistance.
The six tasks are:
Observation task for Concepts About Print Taking records of reading continuous texts - Running Records Observation task for Letter Identification Observation task for Word Reading Observation task for Writing Vocabulary Observation task for Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words (Revised) Important new developments
This fourth edition of Marie Clay's seminal text includes two important new developments:
a revised task for assessing children's phonemic awareness and sound-letter knowledge is more sensitive to different rates of progress and to the difficulties some children might have updated norms for five of the Observation Survey tasks will enable teachers and schools to more accurately monitor and compare the progress of five-to-seven-year-old children across different aspects of literacy learning The observation procedures arose from a theory of how children learn to manage the complex task of learning to read and write continuous text. That process is described in Marie Clay's other books: Becoming Literate: The Construction of Inner Control; By Different Paths to Common Outcomes; and Change Over Time in Children's Literacy Development.
Additionally, the intervention described in Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals makes use of these observation tasks.
Are they experiencing success or falling behind? How soon can we tell?
An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement, Fourth Edition provides teachers and school systems with essential information about how to assess young children's progress in literacy learning.
The six tasks of the Observation Survey are used by teachers across the world to explore children's knowledge of early reading and writing, monitor progress, guide instruction, and reliably identify children for supplementary assistance.
The six tasks are:
Observation task for Concepts About Print Taking records of reading continuous texts - Running Records Observation task for Letter Identification Observation task for Word Reading Observation task for Writing Vocabulary Observation task for Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words (Revised) Important new developments
This fourth edition of Marie Clay's seminal text includes two important new developments:
a revised task for assessing children's phonemic awareness and sound-letter knowledge is more sensitive to different rates of progress and to the difficulties some children might have updated norms for five of the Observation Survey tasks will enable teachers and schools to more accurately monitor and compare the progress of five-to-seven-year-old children across different aspects of literacy learning The observation procedures arose from a theory of how children learn to manage the complex task of learning to read and write continuous text. That process is described in Marie Clay's other books: Becoming Literate: The Construction of Inner Control; By Different Paths to Common Outcomes; and Change Over Time in Children's Literacy Development.
Additionally, the intervention described in Literacy Lessons Designed for Individuals makes use of these observation tasks.
192 pages, Paperback
First published May 20, 1993
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January 25, 2020
A handy handbook if you need it.
August 22, 2024
Informative, straightforward and a great guide for the OS.
June 30, 2010
Not something I'm likely to use often, since this is geared towards early readers, but very well explained and laid out for those who need to learn the Running Record process as well as other early literacy assessments.
January 8, 2011
Good read for teachers (especially Reading Recovery) to better understand what children are thinking/doing while reading and writing in a structured one-on-one teaching environment. What should you be looking for? How might you respond? This book helps answer those questions.
March 11, 2015
As much as this book focuses on elementary grades (I teach secondary), I was very impressed by how easily I was able o make this apply to my teaching. I feel like I have a better idea how to use different types of assessments and how I can better understand the reading habits of my students.
November 6, 2008
Again this is what I have time to read right now and what I read almost daily.
September 6, 2010
The survey lays a solid foundation on which to build. I can't wait to get to the rest of the training to find out what to do next.
November 17, 2010
Excellent guide to better teaching
August 12, 2012
The first book on reading instruction that ever made sense to me. My entire reason for wanting to become an educator. Thank you, Marie Clay!
January 24, 2016
Excellent!
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