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The Pre-Primary 1 Parents Must-Have:
The P1 Parents’ Survival Guide to Primary School
Survival Tip 11: Cruising smoothly through the ELI screening test
Learning Support Programme for English (LSP)
I have written about the Learning Support Programme for English (LSP) in Tip 6. For those who did not read the earlier tip, here is a short introduction about the Learning Support Programme for English (LSP). LSP is an early intervention programme aimed at providing additional support and intervention for P1 pupils who are identified to be weak in basic literacy skills. Its objective is to equip the pupils with basic literacy skills. For more information, please read Tip 6.
For this tip, I will like to share with you about the likely items that the students will be tested when they do the ELI screening test. Upon interviewing my nephews, nieces, my own child, his classmates and some of my friends’ children, I found out that during the ENI screening test, they were tested on these areas:
1) Copying letters of the alphabet, copying words and sentences.
2) Finding the correct pictures.
3) Writing letters of the alphabet.
4) Finding the word with the correct beginning letter sounds.
5) Matching words to the correct pictures.
6) Identifying pictures that rhyme.
7) Spelling simple words.
Items 1 to 4 are basic literacy skills that all pre-schools in Singapore will have covered by K2. Thus, if your child has been attending a pre-school regularly, your child should have no problems doing well for items 1 to 4. For my child, he told me that he has problems with the rhyming and spelling questions. He was not selected for the LSP thus I believe he has gotten enough questions correct from 1 to 5. It was also hard for me to get the questions tested from him as he has forgotten half of the questions after doing the test.
It is important to remind your child to listen to the instructions of the teacher conducting the test carefully, as there may not be any written instructions written on the paper. I heard of children who did not do well for the test even though they are quite bright. Thus, most likely they did not listen correctly or were careless.
If you are still worried, attached is a sample paper of the ELI questions that I have complied. It may not be exactly the same as the school paper as I have not seen it. However, I try to make it similar to the school paper from what I gathered from the children. Hope you will find it useful.
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