In my former life as a special educator, data was king. Subjective measurements of who is learning what, what they are learning, and how they are learning all serve to inform and guide future lesson plans.
At home, with my three children, we focus intensively on literacy skills. Which basically means we read like CRAZY!! It could be graded readers, or just Chinese picture books. Either way, we read a LOT.
We rely heavily on the Sage Books Basic Chinese 500 series (which by the way I think is a great set of readers to have to teach children to read). Hence, I created this simple assessment guide to check my children’s reading and writing level.