A Contextual Approach to Learning Literacy Skills
Supporting all learners including those with literacy difficulties
Dyslexia circa 1960
From the greek - dys + lexia =
difficulty + words
Early Identification Contextual Assessment Contexts for Learning Successful Learning
Teachers
Vs
Technicians
Breaking the Cycle
of
Disadvantage
Getting it right for learners with Dyslexia …
…getting it right for all!
• Oral vocabulary *
• Clear speech
• Experience of books
• Visual perception
• Motor skills
• Naming speed *
• Phonological awareness *
Early Identification
Literacy Learning
Literate Brain
orthographic
semantic
phonologic
Simply- daily opportunities to …
written words
talk listen
learn about words
sounds
and spelling
Oral Story Telling
•Communication •Conversation Skills •Developing Vocabulary
•Recall/Retell Events
LISTENING AND TALKING
•Listening, watching, enjoying and responding to text
•Ask/answer questions
• Rhyme • Song • Sounds • Letter names • Long and short vowel sounds • Alphabetical order
Phonological Skills
•Rhyme/Alliteration •Segmentation •Awareness of words as units
•Sounds and letters •Speech sound discrimination
WRITING
•Orientation •Awareness of print •Shape and symbol reproduction
READING AND WRITING
•Awareness of environment print •Logographic recognition
•Emergent writing
Daily opportunities
Contextual assessment
• Holistic pupil profile
• Built over a period of time
• What would you expect that to include? (Discuss)
Contextual assessment
• Pupil strengths/ Development needs • Preferred Learning style • Current attainment (across Curriculum) • Pupil voice • Family voice • Strategies used • Phonological awareness • Analysis of written work including spelling • Analysis of physical ability and motor control • Observed reading behaviours • Analysis of numeracy work
Then what?
• Strengths and development needs identified
• Process of plan, do and review
Tracking Framework
Summary
• Teachers – teaching (more confident and able to make professional judgements)
• Pupils- confident, resilient, willing to have a go, self aware
The aim…
• Pupils who are motivated to learn
• Can work independently
• Have greater resilience
• Confident learners
• Successful learners
• Responsible citizens
• Effective contributors
Dyslexia = more than words!