AL Rw/E1.1 Have limited, meaningful sight vocabulary of words, signs, symbols

Adult Literacy Core Curriculum (DfES 2001): reading / word focus / word recognition

Rw/E1.1 Possess a limited, meaningful sight vocabulary of words, signs and symbols

  • Understand that written words carry meaning and that adults will already be familiar with many of the words they will meet in print, from their experience of spoken language
  • Understand that some words occur in texts more frequently than others, and recognise key high-frequency words
  • Read and understand words on forms related to personal information, e.g. first name, surname, address, postcode, age, date of birth
  • Understand that there are words which are key personal words for them and their situation, identify these words and learn to recognise them
  • Know and apply some techniques for recognising words on sight: length, shape, initial letter combinations, association with other words
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