Name______________     Age __   Year level __

Date 1st check

Date 2nd check

LEARNING STYLE

·  Is attentive when listening to a story

·  Play-acts/pretends to read

·  Experiments with writing letters and words

·  Has confidence to have a go at drawing, reading and writing

·  Works independently and stays on task

LANGUAGE ABILITY

·  Listens and responds appropriately for age

·  Can retell experiences, stories, and rhymes

LISTENING SKILLS

·  Can clap in time with songs or rhymes

·  Can put together sounds heard (eg. h-ou-s)  - by parent

                                                                   - by child.

10 KEY PRINT CONCEPTS   (critical for beginning reading)

1 Knows to follow the print/not the picture

2 Knows to read from the front of the book

3 Knows where to start reading on the page

4 Follows print from left to right direction

5 Begins top left, follows print right, returns to new line/s below left

6 Knows what a “word” is

7 Knows what a “letter” is

8 Points carefully to each word with finger and voice

9 Can play the 'I Spy' game correctly

10 Can say/sing the alphabet

                  TOTAL KEY PRINT CONCEPTS     (score  out of 10)

 /10

 /10

WRITING DEVELOPMENT

·  Writes words from left to right

·  Writes letters and/or letter-like shapes

·  Puts spaces between words

·  Writes initial letters of words

·  Writes initial and final letters of words

·  Uses some vowels in words

·  Uses appropriate vowels in words (the sound heard)

·  Tries to use full stops, commas or speech marks

READING DEVELOPMENT

·  Can point to individual words while someone else is reading

·  Can tell a story from the pictures

·  Reads by memorising the storyline loosely and using pictures

·  Reads by memorising the storyline and trying to use print cues

WORD AND LETTER KNOWLEDGE

·  Recognises most letters by their name     (record number   /26)

·  Recognises most letters by their sound     (record number  /26)

·  Recalls and writes most letters at will        (record number  /26)

·  Recognises words in books or in the environment     (number)

·  Recognises a basic core of common sight words       (number)