| Objective A: Learners will develop basic
literacy skills where needed. |
- Recognize and identify English alphabet and upper-and lowercase
letters in both cursive and manuscript.
- Recognize and identify survival signs, i.e., stop, go, danger, no
parking, etc.
- Increase sight vocabulary and basic, functional words related to
everyday needs such as name, address, telephone number, etc.
- Know basic letter-sound relationships.
- Know word families, compound words, suffixes, and prefixes.
- Read from left to right and top to bottom.
- Scan for specific information, i.e., time, date, place, name,
etc.
- Interpret abbreviations, i.e., a.m., U.S.A., apt., Jan., Ave.,
etc.
- Identify and use punctuation marks, i.e., periods, question
marks, exclamation points, commas, and abbreviations.
- Identify capitalization clues in written material, i.e., proper
names, people, places, buildings, beginnings of sentences, days of
week, months of year, holidays, etc.
- Use context clues to determine the meanings of unknown words,
i.e., “I like to eat succotash.” I like to eat clues the
student that the word that follows is a food name.
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