A Contextual Approach to Learning Literacy Skills

Supporting all learners including those with literacy difficulties

Dyslexia circa 1960

From the greek - dys + lexia =

difficulty + words

Early Identification Contextual Assessment Contexts for Learning Successful Learning

Teachers

Vs

Technicians

Breaking the Cycle

of

Disadvantage

Getting it right for learners with Dyslexia …

…getting it right for all!

• Oral vocabulary *

• Clear speech

• Experience of books

• Visual perception

• Motor skills

• Naming speed *

• Phonological awareness *

Early Identification

Literacy Learning

Literate Brain

orthographic

semantic

phonologic

Simply- daily opportunities to …

written words

talk listen

learn about words

sounds

and spelling

Oral Story Telling

•Communication •Conversation Skills •Developing Vocabulary

•Recall/Retell Events

LISTENING AND TALKING

•Listening, watching, enjoying and responding to text

•Ask/answer questions

• Rhyme • Song • Sounds • Letter names • Long and short vowel sounds • Alphabetical order

Phonological Skills

•Rhyme/Alliteration •Segmentation •Awareness of words as units

•Sounds and letters •Speech sound discrimination

WRITING

•Orientation •Awareness of print •Shape and symbol reproduction

READING AND WRITING

•Awareness of environment print •Logographic recognition

•Emergent writing

Daily opportunities

Contextual assessment

• Holistic pupil profile

• Built over a period of time

• What would you expect that to include? (Discuss)

Contextual assessment

• Pupil strengths/ Development needs • Preferred Learning style • Current attainment (across Curriculum) • Pupil voice • Family voice • Strategies used • Phonological awareness • Analysis of written work including spelling • Analysis of physical ability and motor control • Observed reading behaviours • Analysis of numeracy work

Then what?

• Strengths and development needs identified

• Process of plan, do and review

Tracking Framework

Summary

• Teachers – teaching (more confident and able to make professional judgements)

• Pupils- confident, resilient, willing to have a go, self aware

The aim…

• Pupils who are motivated to learn

• Can work independently

• Have greater resilience

• Confident learners

• Successful learners

• Responsible citizens

• Effective contributors

Dyslexia = more than words!