A pilot study: development of pre- literacy skills assessment checklist

Abstract

Introduction: Emergent literacy refers to skills and knowledge serving as prerequisites to reading and writing. The emergent pre –literacy skills are print awareness, phonological awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary and narration are the skills that lay foundation for later reading skills. This study focuses on development of a pre -literacy skills assessment checklist. Aim: Development of Pre-literacy skills assessment checklist for children between 4 to 7 years of age. Method: The checklist was developed which consists of 5 major domains. It was administered in 77 typically developing 4to7 years’ school children. Result and discussion: 77 children data was tabulated and SPSS software was used to find out the reliability. Cronbach’s alpha test was used to administer the internal consistency and overall reliability. (r= 0.830) which reveals that the checklist has very good accuracy. Conclusion: Results reveals very high internal consistency Standardization & validation of this tool can be done on larger population.