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, 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
Word Focus Vocabulary, word recognition and phonics Rw/E2
Skills, knowledge and understanding
Adults should be taught to:
1 read and understand words on forms
related to personal information
(e.g. first name, surname, address,
postcode, age, date of birth)
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3
4
5
recognise high-frequency words and
words with common spelling patterns
– read on sight high-frequency words
– read on sight personal key words
– know and use different techniques for
learning to read words on sight,
e.g. association, visual shape, and pattern
context
use phonic and graphic knowledge to
decode words
– understand that the meaning of individual
words can often be deduced from
surrounding context, using own life
knowledge and experience as a guide
– understand that knowledge of sound and
letter correspondence can be applied alongside
these contextual clues to help decode
words, e.g. use of initial phonemes/letters
– understand that the same sound (phoneme)
can be spelt in more than one way and that
the same spelling (grapheme) can represent
more than one sound
– reinforce and extend knowledge of
sound–letter patterns in simple words with
common spelling patterns
– understand that some words can be split into
specific parts, and recognise the parts,
including compound words, prefixes, suffixes,
inflectional endings, plurals, e.g. playground,
replay, playful, playing, played, plays
– understand how each beat in a word is a
syllable and breaking some words into
syllables can help to decode them, e.g. family
use a simplified dictionary to find
the meaning of unfamiliar words
– understand the function of dictionaries
– understand that dictionaries are
organised alphabetically
use initial letters to find and sequence
words in alphabetical order
– understand that you do not have to start at
the beginning of a list/dictionary
– use the initial letter to locate the starting
point quickly
Example
Read and understand what personal
information is needed to complete a form in
a real-life task.
Social sight vocabulary for written signs.
High-frequency words from Dolch list.
Months of the year.
Read a simple text, using appropriate
strategies to attempt every word.
Read words with common spelling patterns
for long vowel phonemes:
ee (feet), ea (seat);
a–e (name), ay (play), ai (train);
ie (lie), i–e (bite), igh (high), y (fly);
oa (boat), o–e (pole) ow (show);
oo (moon), u–e (tune) ew (flew), ue (blue).
Read words with common spelling patterns
for vowel phonemes:
oo – u (pull), oo (good);
ar – ar (car);
oy – oi (boil), oy (boy);
ow – ow (cow), ou (sound).
Find a word in a simplified dictionary.
Look up unknown words from their own
reading in a simplified dictionary.