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Sample activities • Put pictures and sentences in the correct sequence and read the completed account. • Read simple recounts and note features, e.g. sequenced events, use of words such as first, next, after, when. • Sequence a set of instructions so they can be carried out, e.g. taking medicines, following a basic recipe, cleaning paintbrushes. • Sort a range of texts into instructional texts and others and note the key structural features of instructions, e.g. clear statement of purpose; set of steps in sequence, often numbered; direct language. • Discuss the purpose of different short texts and identify features that characterise the text type. • Sort different texts into categories of purpose, e.g. letters, instructions, stories, adverts. • Select their own reading for pleasure from a range of material at this level; read and discuss texts with fellow learners and teacher. • Sort and match information to its source, e.g. football results to newspaper sports section, definitions of words to dictionary, list of dentists to Yellow Pages. • Identify a personal list of information needs and likely sources as a checklist for learning and use. • Use the front page of a web site (e.g. MSN, AOL) to find items of news, sport, gossip, entertainment. • Match statements to illustrations, e.g. newspaper headlines to photographs. • Choose a subject of use or interest and identify some information required. Choose a suitable text and use the illustrations as a guide to where in the text the information is likely to be. Check if it is there. • Match common icons to their meaning and/or purpose (e.g. save, cut, paste). Reading 63
64 The Adult Literacy Core Curriculum At this level, adults can read and understand short, straightforward texts on familiar topics read and obtain information from short documents, familiar sources and signs and symbols in texts such as public signs and notices, lists, forms, notes, records, e-mails, simple narratives, letters and diagrams Sentence Focus Grammar and punctuation Rs/E2 Skills, knowledge and understanding Adults should be taught to: 1 read and understand linking words and adverbials in instructions and directions (e.g. next, then, right and straight on) – understand that these types of word and phrase: expand the information in a sentence by providing details about place, sequence, time; relate one step of the instructions/directions to another, enabling the reader to follow the whole text and complete the task 2 3 4 use knowledge of simple sentence structure and word order to help decipher unfamiliar words and predict meaning – understand that sentences follow grammatical patterns, and certain types of words are more likely to occur in some places than others – understand that word order and the relationship between words in a sentence are as important to meaning as the words themselves apply own life experience and knowledge to check out plausible meanings of a sentence as a whole when decoding unfamiliar words – understand that an unknown word must make sense in the context of the complete sentence, and that this will rule out most alternatives use punctuation and capitalisation to aid understanding – understand that different punctuation marks are used for different purposes and know their names: full stop, question and exclamation marks for end of sentence – understand that this punctuation serves to help the reader make sense of written text, and apply this understanding in their own reading – understand that all end-of-sentence markers are followed by an initial capital in continuous text written in complete sentences Example Use the information in adverbials and linking words to help follow a sequence of written instructions or directions. Make general sense of a simple continuous text written in sentences, encountered in daily life, even if they are not able to read every word. Check out possible plausible meanings in their own reading, e.g. in a sentence in a letter. Recognise and take account of full stops, question marks, exclamation marks in their own reading.
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