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Language & Literacy: 1:1 Assessment

3. Describe Compare

When we tell children how things look, sound, feel, taste, and smell, were teaching them to describe. Describing words (big, bumpy, furry) are adjectives. When we describe how two things are alike or different, were teaching children how to compare. Comparisons require noticing the same attribute (like size) that two things share. Opposites are a wonderful way to introduce comparing.

Look at this elephant. Look at the bird, too. Lets compare them. The elephant is big. The bird is (pause). The elephant picks up things with its trunk. The bird picks up things with its (pause). The elephants trunk is long. The birds beak is (pause). The elephant has 4 legs. The bird has (pause). The elephant is heavy. The bird is (pause). The elephant can walk. The bird can (pause). The elephant makes a big trumpet sound. The bird makes a (pause).

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Nursery rhymes are a delightful way to develop vocabulary, memory, and speech sound awareness. They endure because of their appealing content, rhythm, and rhyme. Familiarity with nursery rhymes often indicates a language-rich home and school environment.

4. Nursery Rhyme Repeat (no pictures)

Say what I say. One, two, tie my shoe (pause) . Three, four, shut the door, (pause).________ Jack and Jill, went up the hill, (pause). Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, (pause) Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, (pause). Rhyming words have the same ending sound. Noticing whether words have the same or different ending sounds is part of phonological awareness. Pig, dig rhyme. They have the same ending sounds: ig. Pig, hat do not rhyme. They have different ending sounds: ig, at. Do bear and dog rhyme? Do chair and cat rhyme? Do bear and chair rhyme? Do chair and bear rhyme? What is this? (point to bear, dog, chair, cat): Which one rhymes with hat? cat Which one rhymes with frog? dog Which one rhymes with log? dog
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Rhyme Or Not (no pictures)

Rhyme Find (use pictures)

Which one rhymes with hair? bear and/or chair Which one rhymes with mat? cat
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5. Words

Language & Literacy: 1:1 Assessment

To develop language, children need to hear people talking from the time theyre babies. They need people to talk and read to them. The more words the better as spoken words gradually take on meaning. Words (Use pictures) What is this? __________car _________ banana _________ backpack __________jacket

Words in a category Which one do people drive? (pause) car Which one is used for carrying things? (pause) backpack Which one can people eat? (pause)_banana What foods do you eat? (pause) Which one do people wear? (pause)_jacket What clothes do you wear? (pause)

6. Word Parts (No pictures)

Spoken words have meaning, but they also have sound parts. The ability to hear and manipulate sounds is called phonological awareness. This assessment looks at how children blend sounds together. I will say word parts. You put the parts together. I have the word fish. I have the word bowl. I put them together, fishbowl. Compound word parts hot + dog = (pause) hotdog Syllables ap + ple = (pause) apple Onset- rime /s/+ it = (pause) sit
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back + pack = (pause) backpack

cup + cake = (pause) cupcake

car + toon = (pause) cartoon

jack + et = (pause) jacket

/r/ + un = (pause) run

/k/ + ar = (pause) car

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