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Assessment Booklet
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Name of teacher: ...........................................................................................................................................................................................

Date: From September ..........................................

to July ..........................................

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Literacy Year 1
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Nursery Education
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Programme by:
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CMY Ingrid Trotman, Asst. Chief Education Officer (N) Ministry of Education
Penelope George, Head Mistress (G) Liana Nursery
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Liza Ryce, Head Mistress (G) Roxanne Burnham Nursery

Abeeda Ali, Head Mistress (G) Clonbrook Nursery
Assisted by:
Herbert Grandison, Head, Inspectorate Unit (MERD) Ministry of Education.
Typeset by:
Yolanda Trotman
Edited by:
Ms. Quenita Walrond. MA, Early Childhood Development Consultant - NCERD

Written and Produced by the

Ministry of Education
21 Brickdam • Georgetown • Guyana.
Website: www.education.gov.gy
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Nursery Assessment - Literacy Year One

Teachers
The Assessment Booklet and checklist
are designed and modified to assess
the child’s level of attainment of the pre-requisite Literacy
and Numeracy skills at the Nursery level.

The booklet must be used

during the fourth week of every month with every child.
A checklist is inserted at the back of this booklet
where the teacher will record the child’s progress.
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If the child completes the task successfully,

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then the child will be checked as ATTAINED.

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If the child completes the task partially (over 50%),
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will be checked as NOT ATTAINED.

Teachers are asked to check the child progress of that task

until he/she completes it successfully.
This should not be done on one day,
but over a period of time after a number of strategies
have been tried in teaching the concept.

This booklet must be completed over a one-year period.

Ingrid Trotman - ACEO, Nursery

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Literacy Standard
Builds oral vocabulary independently.

Instructions for Administration:

1. What is your name? ( My name is ................................................. )
2. Draw yourself in the box.
3. Write your name below. Trace the word (If he/she cannot write, teacher writes).

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Polite Conventions

Instructions for Administration:

1. Ask the child to describe what is happening in each of the pictures.
2. What do you think Paul is saying in the second picture?

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Demonstrates grade or age appropriate receptive and
expressive language skills.

Instructions for Administration:

1. Look at the picture. Answer the question:
Where do you think this boy is going?
( Expected response: The boy is going to school.)

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Identifies Likenesses and Differences

Instructions for Administration:

1. Look at the pictures.
2. Point to the picture that is different in each row.

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Identifies Likenesses and Differences

Instructions for Administration:

1. Look at the pictures.
2. Point to the pictures that are alike in each row.

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Scan from Left to Right

Instructions for Administration:

Trace along the lines.

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Recognises his or her own name in print.

Instructions for Administration:

( Place four name cards on the table. The child’s name should be on one of the cards. )
1. Select your name card.

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Identifies Likenesses and Differences in sounds. (Rhyming Sounds).

Instructions for Administration:

1. Say the names of the pictures (picture fluency).

2. Point to each picture, say the name of the picture,

and give another word which rhymes with the same sound. For example: hat ...... bat.

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Identifies Likenesses and Differences in sounds. (Ending Sounds).

Instructions for Administration:

1. Say the names of the pictures (picture fluency).

2. Point to the pictures which end with the same sound.

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Identifies Likenesses and Differences in sounds. (Beginning Sounds).

Instructions for Administration:

1. Say the names of the pictures (picture fluency).

2. Point to the pictures which begin with the same sound.

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Identifies Likenesses and Differences in sounds. (Beginning Sounds).

Instructions for Administration:

1. Say the names of the pictures (picture fluency).

2. Point to each picture, say the name and give another word
which begin with the same sound.

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Readily Identifies 10 to 15 letters out of sequence.

Instructions for Administration:

Read the letters from left to right in each row.

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Identifies sequence of events in simple stories

Instructions for Administration:

1. Look at the pictures.
2. Tell the story.

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Writing Conventions of Standard English

Instructions for Administration:

1. Look at the pictures.
2. Read each word (picture reading).
3. Trace /copy each word.

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boy boy girl girl

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Locate and interpret information on a calendar, simple chart or pictograph.

Instructions for Administration:

1. Look at the Weather Chart.
2. Answer the question: What kind of weather is it today?
(Expected answer: “Today is a sunny day.”)
3. Fix the Weather Chart to show the type of weather condition.

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Observational Checklist Revised May, 2014

Literacy Development: Ages 3 Years 6 Months - 4 Years 6 Months

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Standard 1: Listening / Speaking ATTAINED PROGRESS ATTAINED
Listens to and follows two-step oral directions (Amt: 8)

Listens to short stories

Listens and identifies environmental sounds

Knows their name (Amt: 10)

Tells age
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Tells sex
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Speaks in 3-5 word sentences (Amt: 4)

Speaks using standard English (Amt: 6)

Answers questions (Amt: 5)

Standard II: Concepts of print and IN NOT

Phonemics Awareness ATTAINED PROGRESS ATTAINED
Identifies rhyming sounds (Amt: 11)

identifies beginning sounds (Amt: 13/14)

Follows print from left to right (Amt: 9)

Recites nursery rhymes, finger plays

Sings alphabet and other songs

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Observational Checklist Revised May, 2015

Literacy Development: Ages 3 Years 6 Months - 4 Years 6 Months

Standard III: Word Analysis, Fluency and IN NOT
Vocabulary Development ATTAINED PROGRESS ATTAINED
Identifies 10-15 letters of the alphabet (Amt: 15)

Matches individual letters to name

Matches individual letters to words

Standard IV: Reading Comprehension IN NOT

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Retells a familiar story
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Recognizes own name in print

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Handles books and turns pages correctly

Predicts what will happen next and justifies (Amt: 16)

Relates story to real life experiences (Amt: 5)

Reads picture-word cards

Reads picture-word books

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Observational Checklist Revised May, 2015

Literacy Development: Ages 3 Years 6 Months - 4 Years 6 Months

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Standard IV: Research and Study ATTAINED PROGRESS ATTAINED
Reads labels in classroom

Reads Daily Chart

Reads Weather Chart (Amt: 8)

Standard V: Writing Conventions IN NOT

ATTAINED PROGRESS ATTAINED

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Draws people or/and objects (Amt: 4)
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Holds a pencil correctly (Amt: 9)
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Pretends to write on his/her own (Amt: 4)
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Traces names/words (Amt: 17)

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