1. Read and
understand formatted and unformatted interactional messages
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- Greeting Cards with accompanying visuals
Happy Birthday
- Read a 1 line Happy Birthday message
- Read a 1 line comment from the teacher
Good Very Good
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2. Read and
understand short instructions |
- Used in the classroom
Circle Read Write
Listen
- Used in the neighbourhood
Exit Push Pull
Stop
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3. Read and
understand formatted and unformatted information |
- Simple teacher-made forms Name Phone Number
Address Postal Code
- Calendar - find days and months
- Diagrams - floor plan of main rooms
- Signs _ MEN WOMEN
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4. Read and interpret written ideas and
feelings |
- Emotional or physical feelings
sad happy
mad sick tired thirsty
- Descriptions
tall short thin
big small long cook clean eat
- Likes and dislikes
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Name |
- All letters of alphabet in random order both
upper and lower case
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Understand |
- Purpose of capitals
- first letter in
sentence - proper names
- Ordering pattern of a form (what each part
means) and where to write answers
- Basic sound/letter correspondence (Beginning
recognition of initial/final consonants)
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Read and understand |
- Own personal information (name, address, phone
#, postal code) in a variety of print styles and font sizes
- Small bank of sight words in familiar or
predictable contexts
- Subject pronouns _ singular
- Possessive adjectives
- Verbs (to be/have)
- Routine verbs
- Articles
- Common nouns used in themes
- Question words (What, Who, Where)
- Prepositions
- Descriptive adjectives
- Simple comprehension questions
Is he
sad?
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Read and understand |
- Text in print and print-like handwriting
- Pictorial signs and symbols
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Recognize |
- Initial consonant sounds
- In sight words
- In phonetic words
- Initial short vowel sounds
- In sight words
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Context is |
- Familiar to learner
- Family, information
re: coming to Canada, housing
- Personally relevant to learner
- Personal
information about school, city, and Canada
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Text should be |
- Accompanied by clear, simple pictures
- Clear, easy to read print
- Uncluttered, with a lot of white space
- In lower case except for proper nouns and on
forms
- Repetitive in structure, such as
- Same
format of picture presentation - Same simple sentence structure
- Up to 3 sentences with one new content word per
line
- One sentence per line
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Text may have |
- Numbered sentences for ease of reference
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Visuals are |
- Large
- Clear
- Realistic
- Common, familiar, and relevant to learners'
lives
- In context
- Sometimes in photographic format
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