Divisional Training-Workshop for Grade III Reading and

Writing Intervention

Presented By:

Reading Recovery Teachers

Topic 2: Observation Survey Tool

Hearing and Recording Sounds in

Words

Hearing and Recording Sounds in words

•In this task, the teacher tells the child a sentence to be written.

•The child is encouraged to write what he can hear in the words dictated.

•This is a task where the child is asked to write the words.

•This is not a test of spelling, but rather a test of hearing and correctly recording sounds in words.

How to administer:1. The observer selects one of five

alternative sentences to be used by the child

A. I have a big dog at home today I am going to take him to school.

B. Mum/Mom has gone up to the shop she will et milk and bread.

C. I can see the red boat that we are going to have a ride in.

D. The bus is coming it will stop here to let me get on.

E. The boy is riding his bike he can go very fast on it.

2. Say to the child:I am going to read you a story. When I have read it through once I will read

it again very slowly so that you can write down the words in the story.Read the test sentence to the child at normal speed. Then say:

Some of the words are hard. Say them slowly and think how you can write them. Start writing the words now! Dictate slowly, word by word. When the child comes to a problem word say: You say it slowly. How would you start to write it? What can you hear? Then add:

What else can you hear? If the child cannot complete the word say:

We’ll leave that word. The next one is…

*You could point to where to write the next word if this helps the child.

How to score:The child is given credit for

every phoneme (sound) that he writes correctly even though the whole word may not be correctly spelt.

Importance of the Assessment:•The scores gives some indication of the child’s ability to :

1. Analyze the word that he hears or says

2. To find a way of recording in letters the sounds that he can hear

Sample Scoring Standards:Mum/Mom h a s g o n e u p t o th e sh o p

sh e1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1213 14 15 16

17 18 19 20

w i l l g e t m i l k a n d b r e a d.21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37

I c a n s e e th e r e d b o a t th a t w e a r e

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1213 14 15 1617 18 19 20 21

g o i n g t o h a v e a r i d e i n.22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37

HRSIW Form

Sample works of Children:

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