Stage 1 guidelines for reading: Orthography

Here is an orthography objective for Stage 1 for reading:

To recognize all the symbols of an alphabetic or syllabic writing system or a limited number of high-frequency characters in a character system

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

• Memory

  Associate the written form of familiar words with the picture. Choose words you are learning to recognize in listening comprehension, and ask the language associate (LA) to dictate them to you, or to show pictures and name the words so you can write them.

• Association

  Label objects around the house in the new language.

Here are some orthography techniques for Stage 1 guidelines for reading:

• The Flash Cards technique

Here is an orthography activity for Stage 1 guidelines for reading:

Find a children's book and sound out the letters, even if you do not know what all the words mean.

• Generic module: Stage 1 guidelines for reading: Orthography
• 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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