• “Nice to meet you!”
• Tell us one piece of language (phrase, social exchange) that you say every day.
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Introductions
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Functional
Literacy
Life Skills and ‘extras’
High Priority
Learning
School Skills
Citizenship
Beginning Literacy Goals
Definition ExamplePre-literate learner
The native language does not yet have a writing system (oral society).
A Bantu refugee from Somalia knows her native Af-Maay only orally, as a written form of the language is just now being developed.
Non-literate learner
The native language has a written form, but the learner has no education and no access to literacy instruction.
An older Bhutanese farmer has now moved to the US as a refugee.
Semi-literate learner
The learner has minimal literacy in native language.
Roberto attended a rural school in El Salvador for 3 years. Although he wanted to continue, his family needed him to work on the family farm.
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Glossary of Terms
Beginning
Literacy
ESL
Dialogues/Conversation
► Social exchange
► Personal information questions
Citizenship
► Differentiating levels
► Civics, reading and writing
► The ‘interview!’
► Money
► Time
► Numbers
► Functional literacy
Priority English
► Stories
► Parent Education
Life Skills
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Class Ideas
“Let’s start at the very beginning…a very good place to…start”?
The case for not starting at the alphabet
What skills are necessary for students to read and write one word?
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• Class Norms: On time/late, cell phone use, planned absences, being prepared for class
• Watching TV for school closings!
• Learning activities: Circle, listen, repeat, match, underline
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Teaching School Skills
Social exchange►How are you’s? Nice to see/meet you! Have a nice weekend!
►How’s the weather?
►Excuse me’s...
Personal information questions►Where are you from?
►Where are you living now?
►How long have you lived in Pittsburgh? Do you like living in Pittsburgh?
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Dialogues/Conversation
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Minimum Competencies• Today/yesterday/tomorrow/day before yesterday/day after tomorrow
• Distinguishing day vs. date
• Next week/this week/next week
For higher level students…• Ordinal number accuracy
• Recognizing months and corresponding numbers
• Day/month abbreviations
• “Next Monday is...” “Last Friday was...” o Next week Last weeko Contextualized numeric dates (appointment cards, expiration
dates, birthdays)o Ago/in
Priority Learning: The Calendar
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Minimum Competencies• On time/early/late
• ‘Before/after’, ‘Every day’
• Awareness of counting by 5’s
• Proficiency with counting by 5’s
• Answering questions (when do you get up, eat lunch, go to bed)
• Awareness of am/pm
• Reading digital clocks
For higher level students…• All middle level activities + different ways of expressing time
(’25 after,’ ‘quarter after’ ’25 to,’)
• Once/twice a day/week/month
• Reading digital and analog clocks
Priority Learning: Time
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Minimum Competencies• Recognizing #1-50 in and out of sequence
• Recognizing number 1- 100
• Writing dictated phone numbers
• Orally giving their phone numbers
For higher level students…• All middle level competencies + recognizing and saying numbers
through 10,000
• Phone numbers (writing and reading with proper pronunciation and pacing)
• SSN
Priority Learning: Numbers
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Minimum Competencies• Coin recognition
• Prices under $5.00
• Making correct money amounts with change
• Counting money with bills and coins
• Orally and writing prices to $500.00
• Money concepts (less than, more than, most, least)
• Shopping concepts (each, per pound)
For higher level students…• All middle level competencies + money concepts - going shopping
• Change (too much, not enough)
• Rounding to the nearest dollar
Priority Learning: Money
• Whole/sight word recognition
• Spell and write first and last name
• Monthly calendar
• Address work – memorize and recite it orally
• Birthdays (their own and family members)
• Phone Number
• Abbreviations - SSN, Phone #, DOB
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Functional Literacy Skills