Assessment Areas Grid

  

Results  Implications for teaching 

Letter sound knowledge e.g. 26 grapheme cards/chart  

  Need all 26 letters and sounds to read and spell. Upper and lower case. 

Phonological awareness e.g. DfL literacy assessment battery  

  Syllables. Sound order. Sound recording. Rhyme. 

Reading e.g. PIRA   

  Decoding out of context. Look for phonologically regular and HFW words. 

Single word spelling e.g. Helen Arkell spelling test    

  Look for both regular and HFW words. 

Passage reading – fluency e.g. reading record    

  Tracking. Language/meaning.  

Writing – fluency e.g. dictation – all about me 

  Dictation – spacing, handwriting, accuracy.  

Writing – generation of ideas. 

Sequencing/memory e.g. alphabet/days/months 

     

   

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