Keys to Young Learner Literacy Skills

These are...

• Five Advanced Literacy Steps

• Five Initial Literacy Steps

• Something

• Five Numeracy Steps

One challenge facing all children is to learn the different ways in which English represents sounds. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet, but they represent ... sounds.

• 26

• 67

• 44

• 147

Continue the sentence.

To be able to read a child has to...

Choose the missing word

• letters

• text

• knowledge

• whole word

How often should you have a phonics focus?

• every lesson

• twice a month

• once a week

• once in a blue moon

The teacher works with small groups of children who are at the same reading level, providing support or scaffolding while they read. The goal is to let the children read, noting problems they have with specific words or punctuation, and providing support and modelling reading strategies for the children to practice.

• Shared reading

• Guided reading

• Independent reading

• Reading aloud

What activities are used for a Product-Based Approach?

• Controlled practice

  Guided practice

  Free practice

• Controlled practice

  Free practice

• Controlled practice

  Guided practice

• Drafting

  Editing

Thank you!