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• Explain the purpose of different short texts. • Sort different short texts into categories of purpose. • Make a collection of short texts from home, work or leisure, and discuss their purpose and relevance. • Explain workplace signs and symbols to a colleague or teacher. • Match symbols of household products to their meaning. • Use knowledge of context and presentation to work out the meaning of signs encountered in their daily life. Sample activities • Discuss the concept of sentence with their teacher using their own language-experience text. • Highlight or underline the initial letter of sentences and full stops in simple sentences in a short text on paper or screen. • Highlight separate sentences in different colours in a short text. • Use a wordprocessor to break a text into sentences. • Highlight: the upper-case letters in their own personal details; the pronoun ‘I’ in a simple text. • Using a word processor, put full stops in a passage of language experience. Reading Language experience Sample activities Use texts prepared by the learners themselves. The language and content will be familiar to them. Texts can be recorded on tape by • Practise tracking the order of print through the learner for transcription, or dictated to the teacher. simple texts of different types, as someone else reads them aloud. • Track texts in supported reading. • Answer questions about a text by looking at a labelled diagram. • Look at the headlines on Ceefax (p. 101) or Oracle (p. 300) and choose the most interesting story (e.g. Bush wins by 327 votes). 57
58 The Adult Literacy Core Curriculum At this level, adults can read and understand short texts with repeated language patterns on familiar topics read and obtain information from common signs and symbols in texts such as public signs and notices, lists, forms, records, simple narratives Word Focus Vocabulary, word recognition and phonics Rw/E1 Skills, knowledge and understanding Adults should be taught to: 1 possess a limited, meaningful sight vocabulary of words, signs and symbols – understand that written words carry meaning and that adults will already be familiar with many of the words they will meet in print, from their experience of spoken language – understand that some words occur in texts more frequently than others and recognise key high-frequency words – understand that there are words which are key personal words for them and their situation, identify these words and learn to recognise them – know and apply some techniques for recognising words on sight: length, shape, initial letter combinations, association with other words 2 3 decode simple, regular words – understand that own language experience can be used when reading, to help predict sense and meaning of words – understand that illustrations and other graphics can give clues to the likely meaning of individual words – understand that written words correspond to their spoken equivalents and are composed of letters in combinations, to represent spoken sounds – identify sounds in familiar regular words from spoken experience and recognise correspondence between sounds (phonemes) and letters (graphemes) recognise the letters of the alphabet in both upper and lower case – understand that letters can be represented in different ways, e.g. upper and lower case, different fonts and sizes – know that letters of the alphabet occur in a particular sequence – recognise, sound, name and sequence the letters of the alphabet – understand and use the terms vowel and consonant Example Social sight vocabulary. Key words from Dolch list. Recognise phoneme–grapheme correspondence in: initial consonant letter sounds; short vowel sounds, initial consonant clusters, final consonant clusters (see Writing curriculum, p.107). Read and understand a very simple text in sentences, based on familiar words and simple regular words, e.g. some facts about own life written down by someone else. Recognise the same sign in upper and lower case. Find a personal key word in their own list.
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