Pre-Literacy and Early Literacy Screens

Profiling the essential skills screening tools

• Time efficient screening options that track junior primary skills and inform
  teaching requirements.
• Multiple pre-literacy and early literacy screening tools.
• Clear administration instructions are included within the manual.
• The ‘Pre-Literacy Screens’ investigate children’s development in phonological awareness and alphabetic knowledge; core skills which facilitate early literacy development.
• The ‘Early Literacy Screens’ investigate early reading and spelling development, along with prerequisite skills.

Includes:

• An Alphabet Readiness Screen.
• An updated version of The Pre-Literacy Screen with updated features: the rhyme identification sub-test listed is marked as optional, there are new formats for tracking alphabet recognition (i.e. for reading) and alphabet recall and formation (i.e. for spelling and writing), a CVC reading subtests now follows the blending subtest, and a CVC spelling subtest now follows the segmentation subtest.
• An Early Literacy Screen­ to review students in the junior primary school years in the areas of decoding and spelling.
• A CVC Single Word Reading and Spelling Screen(with an optional section for the students who are experiencing difficulty acquiring these skills).
• A sh, ch, th, oo, ee, ck Single Word Reading and Spelling Screen(with an optional section for the students who are experiencing difficulty acquiring these skills).
• A CCVC Single Word Reading and Spelling Screen(with an optional section for the students who are experiencing difficulty acquiring these skills).
• A CVCC Single Word Reading and Spelling Screen(with an optional section for the students who are experiencing difficulty acquiring these skills).
• A Junior Primary Spelling Profile.
• A Junior Primary Reading Profile.

NOTE:

This publication is mentioned within the ‘Whole School Literacy Strategy’ booklet on page 5.