To measure the children’s ability to memorise and match from the teaching of the initial sounds
To measure the children’s ability to make the connection between what they hear and what they see.
To evidence that a child can hear the initial sound in a word.
To evidence that a child can identify the initial sound by producing that sound.
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.
what you see and
what you hear and
you have to put these together and set them in context to read.
Teaching can be targeted now for these children in the first weeks of school.