Report on Reading in English in Primary Schools in Zambia - Education Research Paper No. 05 (DFID, 1993, 55 p.): Appendix D

Report on Reading in English in Primary Schools in Zambia - Education Research Paper No. 05 (DFID, 1993, 55 p.)

		(introduction...)
		Overseas development administration
		Summary and recommendations
		1. Introduction: English and primary education in Zambia
		2. Zambia: Primary education
		3. Reading and language learning
		4. Description of the project
		5. Resources in schools visited
		6. Approaches to reading in Zambian primary schools
		7. Results of English reading test ''Word Find'' and Nyanja test
		8. The read aloud tests
		9. Reading comprehension tests in Zambian primary schools
		10. Conclusion and suggestions for improvements
		Appendix A - Structure of education system: Zambia
		Appendix B - Methods of teaching initial reading
		Appendix C - The testing of reading abilities
		Appendix D - Read aloud test
		Appendix E - Word find reading test: Extracts
		Appendix F - Nyanja reading test: Extracts
		Appendix G - Texts for two lessons
		Appendix H - Transcript of a lesson
		Appendix I - Descriptive statistics for English word find reading test
		Appendix J - Descriptive statistics for Nyanja reading test V.01
		Appendix K - Significance testing of the results of the reading tests
		Appendix L - Reading aloud: assessment results for all schools
		Appendix M - Extract: Draft teaching syllabus, functional objectives, reading, grade 7
		Acknowledgements

Appendix D - Read aloud test

Passage 1

Muno is playing with a ball.
He is playing under the tree

Passage 2

Mary is holding some tomatoes.
They are red.
She likes to eat them.

Passage 3

Miss Moyo is a teacher.
Sara and Miriam are in Miss Moyo's class.
One day they gave her some flowers.
She was very happy and she put them on her table.
"Thank you, girls," she said.

Passage 4

When Robert was a little boy he was very sick, so he went with his mother to the hospital. A nurse took Robert and his mother to a big room and she put him into a bed.
Later the doctor came and looked at Robert.
"You'll soon be better!" he said.

Passage 5

Simon and his sister Ruth went by bus to visit their uncle. As the bus was going over a bridge they heard a loud noise. The driver stopped the bus and got out. A large sack of potatoes had fallen from the roof. It had burst open, and there were potatoes everywhere on the road. Simon and Ruth helped to pick them up and put them back in the sack. The sack was so heavy that two men had to help the driver to lift it onto the roof of the bus.

READ ALOUD QUESTIONS

Passage 1

1. What is Muno doing?
2. Where is Muno playing?

Passage 2

1. What is Mary holding?
2. What does Mary like to eat?
3. What colour are the tomatoes?

Passage 3

1. Who is Miss Moyo?
2. Where did Miss Moyo put the flowers?
3. Why was Miss Moyo happy?

Passage 4

1. Where did Robert go?
2. Why did Robert go to the hospital?
3. Where did the nurse put Robert?
4. What did the Doctor say?

Passage 5

1. Did Simon and Ruth go in a car?
2. Where were they going?
3. Why did the driver stop the bus?
4. What made the loud noise?
5. How did Simon and Ruth help?
6. Why did the two men help the driver?