COMMUNICATION
LANGUAGE
LITERACY
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Speaking skills
Writing skills
Listening skills
Communication skills
Reading skills
Building skills
Expressive, Creative and Aesthetic development
Mathematical and Logical Thinking
Body and Environmental Awareness
Personal, Social and Emotional development
Health and Physical development
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Language
Language, thus, enhances the overall
cognitive, psychomotor and sensory
development of the child and is
therefore one of the most important
areas of learning
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Competencies
Communicate with others
Use gestures, facial expressions body
language to express needs, ideas,
experiences and feelings
Participate in and contribute to group
activities
Share, play and interact
Show respect
Express and exchange ideas
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Listening skills
Perceive, identify, discern and locate
sound and voice sources
Respond to instructions/questions
Sustain listening attention to speech, songs
and recorded audio materials
Anticipating main events/outcomes
Recognise, interpret and value movements
of silence
Imitate, rehearse and reproduce what has
been heard
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Building vocabulary
Use familiar words to describe and
identify objects. Express feelings,
thoughts and needs
Use new words/sentences/structure
to space, time, chronology and
direction to understand instructions
given during physical activities
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Speaking skills
Develop distinct articulation
Use correct pronunciation
Control breath during speech
Use tone, pitch, loudness, rhythm/pace pauses
and voice modulation with effect
Use simple to more complex language structures
to communicate orally
Use target language progressively and confidently
Use I, you, he, she, we, you and they
Can describe an event/situation
Use polite forms such as please, thank you, sorry
etc
Narrate a story/recite poem/sing a song
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Reading skills
Read and interpret pictures
Use drawings to convey messages
Recognise shapes, colours size and number
concept
Complete puzzles
Decode common prints
Can play lotto/domino/position game
Encode messages in print form
Recognise sounds/letters
Recognise words
Identify and read letters/words/syllables/simple
sentences
Match pictures to words
Place pictures in a sequence
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Writing skills
Adopt correct writing posture
Draw myself with body parts
Hold a pencil properly
Join dotted lines
Draw/colour with interest
Form letters and copy graphic lines
Can rub crayon on textures
Use paintbrush to paint
Can trace on sand/water
Copy own name/familiar words/simple sentences
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Observation
The task of understanding children and their
development is definitely an important one. It is
not, however, an easy process. It needs to make
careful observations of children’s development and
health used as tools of assessments and reflect on
them. These tools help educators identify children
who are either delayed or advanced in some
aspect of development when compared to the
norm for that age. These observations are
recorded in the form of checklists and other
tools. It helps the educator to assess the
achievement of the children and plan follow-up
activities
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Checklist
A checklist is a quick and simple
method of recording observations. It
is simple and offers no details like
running or anecdotal records. A
diagnostic assessment is useful to
detect what the child can do or
not. We check and list the
behaviours.
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Rubric
It is an authentic assessment which
gives more details on a child’s
progress. It helps to analyse the level
of skills the child has acquired.
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Example
The child can hold a book properly-
Emerging
The child can pretend to read-
Beginning
The child can decode words with
picture-Developing
The child can read words and
understand its meaning-Expanding
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Conclusion
Observation is important to all
teachers because it shows what
children have learned, what is to be
taught later, whether the teaching
methods are effective, whether the
child is confused or clear about the
important issues. Thus, it enhances
the learning curve.
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Questions ?
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