Stage 1 guidelines for reading: Functions

Here are some functions objectives for Stage 1 for reading:

To accomplish survival functions, such as reading, menus, signs, timetables, and maps.

• To understand simple, factual written information for which you know most of the vocabulary, assuming orthography does not present major obstacles

Here are some functions strategies for Stage 1 guidelines for reading:

• Practice

  Include techniques that require simple reading functions, such as reading menus or maps.

Here is a functions technique for Stage 1 guidelines for reading:

• The Look and Listen techniques

Here are some functions activities for Stage 1 guidelines for reading:

• The Reading the Signs activity
• The Eating Out activity
• The Public Transport activity
• The Shopping Trip activity

• Generic module: Stage 1 guidelines for reading: Functions
• In overview module: Stage 1: Reading modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 8 December 1998

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