E801: Week 1: Action 1.2: Different Approaches to Addressing Literacy Difficulties
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Week 1: Activity 1.2 Different Approaches to Addressing Literacy Difficulties
Basic Literacy - the acquisition of technical skills involving the decoding of written text and the writing of simple statements in everyday life.
Functional Literacy - is the process and content of learning to read and write to the preparation for work and vocational training.
[UNESCO quoted in Rassool, N. (1999) 'Literacy: in Search of a Paradigm' in in Soler, J., Fletcher-Campbell, F. & Reid, G. (eds.) Understanding Difficulties in Literacy Development: Issues and Concepts, London, Sage.]
With these simple definitions we can still envisage barriers to literacy being either within the individual (so need individual tuition) or beyond the individual (so need pedagogical change). If we regard literacy as a more complex cultural and social process then the complexity of addressing these barriers expand.
Literacy Programmes/Approaches
THRASS - teaching handwriting, reading and spelling skills Multi-sensory synthetic phonics; whole school approach; basic and functional literacy
Reading recovery Small group/individual; basic literacy
Individual tuition Individual, basic literacy
Small group tuition Small group, basic literacy
Jolly Phonics Whole school approach, some individual, synthetic phonics, basic literacy
Alpha to Omega Specialist, individual or small group, basic literacy
Family Literacy Small group, basic and functional literacy
E801: Week 1: Action 1.2: Different Approaches to Addressing Literacy Difficulties
Week 1: Activity 1.2 Different Approaches to Addressing Literacy Difficulties
Basic Literacy - the acquisition of technical skills involving the decoding of written text and the writing of simple statements in everyday life.
Functional Literacy - is the process and content of learning to read and write to the preparation for work and vocational training.
[UNESCO quoted in Rassool, N. (1999) 'Literacy: in Search of a Paradigm' in in Soler, J., Fletcher-Campbell, F. & Reid, G. (eds.) Understanding Difficulties in Literacy Development: Issues and Concepts, London, Sage.]
With these simple definitions we can still envisage barriers to literacy being either within the individual (so need individual tuition) or beyond the individual (so need pedagogical change). If we regard literacy as a more complex cultural and social process then the complexity of addressing these barriers expand.
Literacy Programmes/Approaches
Multi-sensory synthetic phonics; whole school approach; basic and functional literacy
Small group/individual; basic literacy
Individual, basic literacy
Small group, basic literacy
Whole school approach, some individual, synthetic phonics, basic literacy
Specialist, individual or small group, basic literacy
Small group, basic and functional literacy