Learning Achievement of Class-1 Learners in Foundational Literacy and Numeracy

On the curricular side, there is an increased focus on foundational literacy and numeracy. The specific focus generally is on reading, writing, speaking, counting, arithmetic, and mathematical thinking. It is highly focused throughout the preparatory and middle school curriculum, with a robust system of continuous formative/adaptive assessment to track the performance of the learners. Specific hours daily and regular events over the year-on activities involving these subjects will be dedicated to encourage and enthuse students. Teacher education and the early grade curriculum is on the ways to be redesigned to have a renewed emphasis on foundational literacy and numeracy. It is observed that in early years learners like to play, paint, sing, dance and question. If we encourage this likeness of the children through the play-based activities, the academic performance of the learners is increased. They love play together and work together. Our school activities must be accompanied by these activities to engross Foundational Literacy and Numeracy. In this research, the findings pertaining to the achievement of Class I learners in Language, Mathematics revealed that the early grade have performed very poor .The cause may be that students are not exposed different types of activities. time on task and continuous and comprehensive assessment may be one of the causes. However, the result coincides with the result found by the previous researchers on these areas .The researcher has done the comparative discussion among boys and girls students and found that in some competencies boys have done better and in some competencies, girls have done better.