Zambia's Primary Reading Program (PRP) - Global Partnership for ...

The writing testRemark there is no writing test in English for Grade 1 pupils.a) Take the randomly selected eight children from their class to aquiet room or an empty class that has desks for writing.b) Develop a free atmosphere among the children, mention that it isan exercise that they should not fear about.c) One teacher should be available to help you.d) The writing should be done by all eight pupils at the same time.e) Provide writing paper to each pupil.f) The writing test consists of two elements, dictation and freewriting.g) Dictation is administered as follows: For single words andsentences read each twice before the pupils write. For paragraphs,read the whole paragraph through the first time, the second timeread slowly and pause after meaningful units to allow children towrite. Remind children of the need for correct punctuation. Keepup a good pace with the dictation, allow a reasonable time, but donot necessarily wait for all children to finish writing as this maymake the test take too long. Continue with the dictation as farthrough the test as the children can manage. Once all the learnersare no longer able to write anything then discontinue the test.h) Free writing test is organised as follows:• At Grade 1 children are asked to write their name and thename of their school.• At Grade 2 children are asked to write two short sentencesabout themselves.• At Grade 3 children are asked to write at least two sentencesabout a picture (You will need to collect the appropriatepicture from the ‘Language Poster Set’ Number 7, in advancefrom your Center or a local school).• At Grade 4 Learners should write at least three sentencesfrom the same picture.• At Grade 5 learners should write at least four sentences fromthe same picture.ZAMBIA’S PRIMARY READING PROGRAM (PRP):90 IMPROVING ACCESS AND QUALITY EDUCATION IN BASIC SCHOOLS