Letter and Letter Name Knowledge: Level 0.5
Indicators of Progress
- Students recognise the most common letters and categorise letters based on their shape.
- Students identify the letters seen in previous visual memory activities.
- Students name the most common letters.
- Students represent some sounds (that is, phonemes) by letters (or graphemes).
Teaching Strategies
The text used to model these teaching and learning strategies is The Best Pizza in the World by Jenny Feely, published by Horwitz Martin Education of Australia.
Before, During and After Reading
Teachers may engage students in the following activities to move them from this indicator of progress to the next:
Learning a sight vocabulary
Students begin to learn a ‘sight vocabulary’ by using distinctive visual features in some words to say, for example them, you, me, come, the, to, look.