Use this technique when a child is not retaining basic learning despite your usual group interventions. It requires about 5 minutes a day one-to-one.
Brief Summary from EPTB,
but see the next link for essential details.
Guidance sheets originally from Manchester University?
The website address on each page no longer hosts the pages and does not indicate authorship.
EPTB recommends one-minute probes, not two minutes.
Daily recording chart (new link) Use this special design not ordinary squared paper! The link provides an adaptation of the standard PT chart, designed to be more teacher-friendly.
You enter a few items to be learned (e.g. words), then the programme automatically creates a probe sheet with the items repeated several times in random order.
This site looks complicated, but it’s versatile. When you get there, choose “Precision Teaching probes” on the left-hand menu bar.
I'm sorry that the greyed-out links are no longer working, due to changes at Worksheet Genius.
So those examples of probe sheets are not currently available. (April 2014)
Tailor your probe sheet to suit the child you’re working with
Whatever the printed chart says, stick to a fixed time limit of one minute only. Ignore the lower box on the “genius” probes, or else use it to record how many correct and incorrect items in one minute.
Read a probe in various directions, up, down etc, to prevent learning of the sequence. Better still, create several differently randomised probes with the same items... It’s quick with Worksheet genius
Worksheet Genius has a page to generate your own PT probe for sight vocabulary
number bonds: seeing a number, saying its complement to ten.
Reversals (letters & numbers the wrong way round)
b/d discrimination (bin,din) (see-say. Later: hear-write.)
reversed numeral (3) (for PT, just say the words) Print from the File menu.
reversed letter (s) Print from the File menu
blank 70-box probe Print from the File menu. For handmade reversal probes.
See Reversals page for teaching ideas