Contents

Contents : Introduction; Observing change in early literacy behaviours; Reading and writing: processing the information in print; Assisting young children making slow progress; Observation task for concepts about print; Taking records of reading continuous texts - Running Records; Observation task for Letter Identification; Observation task for Word Reading; Observation task for Writing Vocabulary; Observation task for Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words; Summarising the Observation Survey results; The teacher and the observations; Stanine tables; Appendices; References; Index;