Literacy One

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Sections
Tasks
Reading
Word Recognition

 

1. Use of short vowels in words, beginning/ending consonants sounds, word families. Animated Beginning Phonics

2. Identify a word that describes a picture. [Adverbs of place, Adjectives, comparative, possessive, superlative, order of adjectives NOTE: These links are for indepth learning. Students may not progress through the entire study of adjectives.] Oxford Picture Dictionary, page 12 Colors, page 13 Prepositions of Place.

3. Identify a sentence that describes a picture

4. Identify 40 Most Common Words & Words from Book One

Knowledge of Print [for those who skipped Pre-Literacy]

 

1. Recognize parts of a book [See the parts] [Quiz]

2. Name and order alphabet letters [abc ordering]

3. Group words in alphabetical order

 

Reading Aloud

 

1. Read 40 Most Common Words and Book One Words with rebus inserts in the stories of Book One from the Christian Literacy Series

2. Read aloud the stories in Book One and answer comprehension questions

 

Writing

 

1. Write grapheme [letters] when phonome is spoken

2. Copy sentences from Christian Literacy Series Book One

3. Use Word Cards & Pictures to write sentences & a story

4. English On A Roll tool can be used to complete sentences grammatically

There are free lessons available that can be reproduced for classroom use. Watch the demonstration.

5. Cloze exercises using adverbs and adjectives describing a picture

Cloze Exercise #1: Nouns and Adjectives

Grammar: In, On, At

Listening

Active Listening & Participation

 

1. Identify and write grapheme short vowels in words, beginning/ending consonants sounds, word families

2. Give a physical response to a rhyming pattern

3. Repeat a rhyming pattern

4. Listen and Identify Ideas & Details from picture-based questions about extended texts

 

Understanding & Providing Words in Context

 

1. Choose a picture that corresponds to a high-frequency/sight word

2. Describe objects with high-frequency/sight words

 

Understanding & Giving Directions

1. Identify picture of people following directions - Studying - Oxford Picture Dictionary Page 7

2. Give directions

 

Speaking

 

1. Identify objects [nouns] & actions [verbs] use high-frequency adverb and adjective words at first - second grade level

2. Describe events in sequence using pictures - Learn the words Seasons, Months, Time online exercise. Months Memory Game [listening]

3. Explain simple math terms in buying or selling something - US Coins and Currency - Change Maker -Chose country and level of difficulty

4. Describe common activities students may experience in coming to class or going to work presented in a series of pictures - Oxford Picture Dictionary page 26, 27

 

Low Beginning ESL [CASAS]


SPL 2 Listening/Speaking: Functions in a ve ry limited way in situations related to immediate needs; asks and responds to basic learned phrases spoken slowly and repeated often. Reading/ Writing: Re c o g n i zes and writes letters and numbers and reads and understands common sight words. Can write own name and address.

Em p l oyability: Can handle only routine entry - l e vel jobs that do not require oral or written communication in English and in which all tasks are easily demonstrated.

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Internet Audio Readings and Practice Exercises

 

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Free Download: Animated Beginning Phonics BY Flix Productions

Designed for beginning readers (pre-kindergarten to second grade), Animated Beginning Phonics covers upper- and lowercase letters, beginning and ending sounds, middle short vowel sounds, and beginning reading words. Sound is used extensively to help the child identify words and letters. Help is available as needed by the student. Pictures of more than 200 3D objects are used in the exercises. All menu items and directions are read aloud to the student to help prereaders navigate and operate the program.
When the student has completed a certain number of problems, they can visit the game room with puzzles and matching games (animated of course). The game room has a parent/teacher control so the number of problems that have to be completed before the student can play can be controlled (5 to 50, or you can close the game room.

Riggs Institute Catalog Boxed Set of 71 Phonogram Cards w/instructions for use and dictation script for letter formation $22.50

Student Audio CD of Phonograms w/Blackline master work and self-testing sheets $22.95

For full multi-sensory self instruction in the 71 phonograms (sound/spelling pattern relationships); ideal to allow older students independence in learning what they may, at first, consider "baby work." The testing/worksheet booklet contains suggestions for applications in spelling and 47 rules of spelling, plural & syllabication.

Telling Time Online Practice Click on Telling Time - choose 5 levels

Listening and Following Directions [Tina's World], [Up Down All Around - 3 levels]
Rapid Naming [How fast can you name an object, a color, a letter, or a number? Get your hand on the mouse, and get ready to start naming!]
abc ordering [animated] Hear the letters as they are placed, then click on the letter that comes next.

Identify Parts of a Book Game

Oxford Picture Dictionary and/or CD ROM
Match Words to Pictures
Sequencing pictures in time order - Drag the pictures into the correct sequence order. 3 sets of pictures.
Choose from 12 Stories to Read Aloud. The stories are printable.
Learning Pages - Register for Free downloadable books. Read online.
Scholastic Rhyming Words 12 Animated Games with Audio. This is a matching Game.

Reading A-Z List of Leveled Readers

Free Samples are available.

Raz-Kids - Online Talking Books

Resources for Teachers

How to TPR Grammar By Eric Schessler, Edited by William Denevan - for students of all ages

The Command Book -
How to TPR 2000 Vocabulary Items in Any Language
by Stephen Silvers

Motion Songs: Hokey Pokey Lyrics, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
The Christian Literacy Series "The Light is Coming" by William Kofmehl, Jr., Ph.D.

Reusable Basic Text; Zero to a Sixth Grade reading level; also available in red print on yellow, which has been successfully used with a variety of reading disabilities.

Games A fun way to learn English! Play Verb, Noun or Both
Dolch Sight Vocabulary - 1st - 3rd Grade Levels from Mrs. Jill Perkins
How to be a Reading Tutor
Reading Competency Test by National Right to Read Foundations

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