Preparing for a literacy program

Preparing for a literacy program requires an understanding of various issues and factors that will influence your choice of an appropriate method for teaching members of a particular community to read and write.

• Understand background issues in literacy.

  See:	Background issues in literacy

• Understand the big picture in literacy.

  See:	The big picture in literacy

• Do preliminary research in the language, the area, and the community.
• Do preprogram activities to expose people to reading and writing.
• Assemble a local literacy team or committee.
• Devise, develop, and test an orthography as needed.

• Task module: Preparing for a literacy program
• In modular book: Prepare for a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter, Mary Morgan, and Leah B. Walter
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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