REading Recovery

1. Divisional Training-Workshop for
Grade III Reading and Writing
Intervention
Presented By:
Reading Recovery Teachers

2. Hearing and Recording
Sounds in Words

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Sample Scoring Standards:
Mum/Mom h a s g o n e u p t o th e sh o p sh e
1 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

10. Sample works of Children: