Stage 2 guidelines for reading: Functions

Here is a functions objective for Stage 2 for reading:

• To notice, when reading, how people

  • express themselves
  • accomplish straightforward social functions, and
  • ask questions and report information

Here are some functions strategies for Stage 2 guidelines for reading:

• Advance organization

  Use a functions checklist for ideas about the kinds of communicative purposes people use language to express.

• Analysis and comparison

  Look at your analysis of the scripts of social situations of everyday life and how people use language to accomplish their purposes. Look at the written texts and see if your ideas about how people accomplish their purposes are confirmed by what you read.

• Selective attention

  Watch for ways people express specific functions in writing.

Here are some functions techniques for Stage 2 guidelines for reading:

• The Familiar Stories technique
• The Bilingual Reading technique
• The Text Portfolio technique
• The Shared Experiences technique
• The Text Analysis technique
• The Picture Descriptions technique
• The Series technique

Here is a functions activity for Stage 2 guidelines for reading:

Notice all the purposes for which you use reading every day. Make a list of areas in which you feel you cannot yet function as well as you would like to.

• Generic module: Stage 2 guidelines for reading: Functions
• In overview module: Stage 2: 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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