Four Alphabet Tests
Test One
To measure the children’s ability to memorise and match from the teaching of the initial sounds
Test Two
To measure the children’s ability to make the connection between what they hear and what they see.
Test Three
To evidence that a child can hear the intiial sound in a word.
Test Four
To evidence that a child can identify the initial sound by producing that sound.
The value of testing.
Fast learners move on; about one third of a class.
Teaching resumes for five or so more sessions and test again; about a third of children move on.
Teaching resumes for the last third of slower learners and the test results are examined.
Identify the deficit in the slower learners.
The tests give reliable information about children’ s learning.
To be an effective reader you use
what you see and
what you hear and
you have to put these together and set them in context to read.
Value
Teaching can be targeted now for these children in the first weeks of school.