Foundational Learning Study Guidelines AP Samagra Shiksha – SIEMAT – Guidelines on Foundational learning study – Certain instructions – issued.
AP Samagra Shiksha – SIEMAT – Guidelines on Foundational learning study – Certain instructions – issued Memo No. SS-15021/24/2022-SAMO-SSA, dated: 14/09/2022
Ref: National Report on Bench marking for Oral Reading Fluency with Reading Comprehension and Numeracy titled 'Foundational Learning Study, 2022' (FLS, 2022) and State Reports released by the Govt. of India.
The District Educational Officers & Ex-Officio Project Coordinators and Additional Project Coordinators of Samagra Shiksha and Principals of DIETs are informed that the Govt. of India has released National Report on Benchmarking for Oral Reading Fluency with Reading Comprehension and Numeracy titled Foundational Learning Study, 2022 (FLS 2022) and State Reports.
Hence, all the District Educational Officers & Ex-Officio Project Coordinators and Additional Project Coordinators of Samagra Shiksha and Principals of DIETs in the State are hereby directed to follow the guidelines.
Guidelines on Foundational Learning:
To concentrate on the findings of the foundational learning and foundational
Special focus is to be laid on the following subtasks
- Oral Language Comprehension: The ability to understand the meaning of language (through spoken stories or pictures)
- Phonological Awareness: The ability to identify sounds within a given word o Decoding Letters: The ability to sound out the symbols (letters)
- Decoding Words: The ability to sound out words
- Decoding Non-Words: the ability to sound out non-words by identifying each symbol’s (letter) sound
- Picture Matching: The ability to understand the meaning of written text.
- Benchmark of oral reading fluency with Comprehension: Correctly read words with comprehension in one minute.
- Number identification, Number discrimination, Number operation (addition and subtraction), Word problems (addition and subtraction), Number operations (Division
- and Multiplication), Measurement, Fractions, Patterns and Data Handling. o Key points and some of the observations of the study are attached.
