Recognising Early Literacy Development
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Recognising Early Literacy Development

Recognising Early Literacy Development

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTDISBN: 9781853963667

Assessing Children's Achievements

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By Cathy Nutbrown
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Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 234.00h x 156.00w
Pages: 160

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This text examines the many purposes of assessment in early literacy development. Issues in early literacy assessment, assessment material, the purposes of literacy assessment, government policy, practice in schools, baseline assessment of literacy, and the need for new research measures of early literacy are all recurrent themes in the book. The author reviews and discusses three decades of policy and practice in assessing literacy development in the years three to five - from recognizing in the late 1960s that literacy in these years exists, to proposals in 1997 for official assessment of literacy at five years. "Recognising Early Literacy Development" reviews and evaluates a large number of existing texts and assessment instruments, and some LEA baseline assessment documents. The author considers the theoretical, political and educational purposes of literacy assessment, and discusses assessment practices as found in an original survey of assessment practice in one LEA. She explores the need for a new approach to measurement for research, which is more attuned to assessment for teaching, and the importance of appropriate approaches to finding out what young children know about literacy. The book includes the Sheffield Early Literacy Development Profile.

Cathy Nutbrown is President of Early Education and Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield. Her research over the last 30 years, has focussed on young children's learning and work with parents to support young children's literacy development. She won an ESRC Award for Research with Outstanding Impact on Society and a Nursery World Lifetime Achievement Award. She is author of over 150 publications including Early Literacy Work with Families (with Hannon and Morgan, Sage, 2005), Early Childhood Educational Research (Sage, 2019), and Home Learning Environments for Young Children (with Clough, Davies and Hannon, Sage, 2022).

Foreword Key Issues in Assessing Early Literacy Development New Views of Early Literacy Development and the Need for Measurement Official Recognition of Early Literacy Development in the UK Three Decades of Measuring and Assessing Early Literacy Development Purposes of Assessing Early Literacy Development Purpose and Practice in Early Literacy Assessment A New Measure for Research in Early Literacy Development

`This is a research text which balances theory with practical realism. It is particularly relevant today with the introduction of Baseline Assessment. Teachers and researchers will find much that they can relate to and learn from. It is clearly written and deserves to be widely read. However, it may make for uncomfortable reading as Cathy Nutbrown challenges all concerned with the assessment of early literacy development to reflect on exactly what they are doing and why' - British Educational Research

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