English Developmental Continuum P-10 – Reading
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Letter and letter name knowledge: Scaffolding learning from Level 1
Indicators of Progress
- Students categorise both lower and upper case letters based on their shape.
- Students discriminate between similar letters (for example, b and d; r, n and m; v, x, w and y) by sorting them into categories.
- Students identify the letters seen in previous visual memory activities.
- Students name the most common letters and recall the characteristic sound for most of the letters; they recognise how sounds are represented alphabetically and identify some sound–letter relationships.
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.