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