Developing Reading Skills : download
Literacy enables adults:
Participation in ongoing learning
Higher income
Better overall health
The ways in which literacy is in everyday tasks
Tasks: Literacy Activities
Types of Literacy
Environmental Print (billboards, signs, menus, etc.)
Functional Texts shorter (forms, bills) or longer (textbooks, manuals, articles)
4 Critical types for success
Survival, immediate day to day needs
Document (labels, bills, ads)
Quantitative (pay stubs, schedules)
Prose (textbooks, articles, novels)
New additions:
Digital literacy
Visual, Graphic literacy
Financial literacy
One-way View
Text
Reader
Interactive View
Text
Context
Interpretations
Culture
Prior Knowledge
Needs and Purposes
Experiences
Expectations
Working with limited literacy learners
Preliterate
Nonliterate
Low-literate
Low-educated
Language Experience Approach
Words generated by experiences
Whole Language
Top-down Approach
Meaningful, relevant material
The Place of Phonics
sound/letter correspondences
Whole-Part-Whole
Whole text, class generated, simple story, etc.
Phonics work based on the text
Return to text, make relatable
Making instruction responsive to learner's needs
Assessing a Variety of Text Types
Preparing for Functional Reading Texts
Where to find info (scan)
Choose useful content
Lessons to promote strategies development
Anticipate content-Predict
Read to confirm
Skim
Scan
Read for details
Make inferences
Recognize the structure of a text
Find evidence to support claims
Transfer information to other contexts
Interpret information
Summarize/ synthesize
Analyze relationships within the texts
Using learner-produced texts
Simply written-easy to understand
Content is relevant