ESOL Rt/E1.1a Follow a short narrative on a familiar topic or experience
Rt/E1.1a Follow a short narrative on a familiar topic or experience
- respond to print as a source of meaning
- be aware that words on the page represent words that can be spoken
- read texts for information and enjoyment
- track texts in the right order, left to right, top to bottom (this also applies to readers of other scripts that don't go from left to right)
- use a range of text-level strategies, learners' own knowledge of the content and context of the text, as a whole, to get meaning from text
- use graphics accompanying texts to help identify meaning
- where relevant, use some basic terms that distinguish spoken from written text, such as page, line, sentence, word, letter, letter, sign, form
Examples:
Read their own composition, which someone else has written down, e.g.: My name is Amina. I come from Somalia.
Read a very simple narrative, with repeated language patterns, on a familiar topic or experience, e.g.: My mother works in a restaurant. My father works in a shop.
Use photos in advertisements and illustrations in an illustrated dictionary to help identify meaning. Platform 3 (in a railway station)
