Intended to aid schools in designing a Literacy Profile (defined here as consisting of documented information from a variety of assessments of a student's performance over a range of items defined as the dimensions of language learning), this pamphlet presents an alternative to standard assessment techniques. In the form of data tables the pamphlet provides an extensive list of the key characteristics of a student literacy profile, outlines the dimensions of the development of literacy, furnishes "indicators of progress" to chart literacy development, and presents examples of informal assessment procedures across reading, writing, listening and speaking. The pamphlet stresses that each school should consider the interrelated factors of their curriculum practices, language policy, and assessment procedures as they design a literacy profile. Twenty-three references are attached. (RS)