Stage 3 guidelines for reading: Orthography

Here are some orthography objectives for Stage 3 for reading:

To continue expanding your recognition of characters representing words you can understand, if in a character system

• To recognize archaic orthographies or spelling systems, if in an alphabetic or syllabary system
• To no longer be consciously aware of deciphering orthography
• To read at normal speed

Here are some orthography strategies for Stage 3 guidelines for reading:

• Memorization and association

  Set yourself a goal of learning a certain number of related characters every day, if learning a pictograph system.

• Exposure to older texts

  Expand the kind of texts you read to include texts written in earlier periods.

Here is an orthography activity for Stage 3 guidelines for reading:

Extensive reading of texts from various periods

• Generic module: Stage 3 guidelines for reading: Orthography
• In overview module: Stage 3: 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

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