Adult Literacy Core Curriculum - Nationally developed Skills for Life ...

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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.