Literacy Three

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1. Understand classroom dialogue - answer questions about class dialogue

2. Identify and understand the main ideas and supporting details from spoken English.

3. Active listening comprehension responding to requests and listening for specific purposes.

4. Listen attentively to stories and information read aloud.

5. Listen and respond to stories and other texts read aloud, including classic and contemporary works.

6. Identify some supporting details from a variety of media messages.

Understanding & Giving Directions

Getting Around Tokyo [50 second dialogue]

1. Identify picture of people following directions

2. Give directions

3. Demonstrate comprehension of oral presentations and instructions through nonverbal responses.

1. Identify objects [nouns] & actions [verbs] use high-frequency adverb and adjective words at first - second grade level

2. Describe events in sequence using pictures

3. Explain simple math terms in buying or selling something

4. Describe common activities students may experience in coming to class or going to work presented in a series of pictures

5. Express opinion on one of three topics.

6. Use spoken English and nonverbal communication in socially and culturally appropriate ways.

7. Orally identify main points of simple conversations and stories read aloud.

SPL 3 Listening/Speaking: Functions with some difficulty in situations related to immediate needs; may have some simple oral communication abilities using basic learned phrases and sentences. Reading/ Writing: Reads and writes letters and
numbers and a limited number of basic sight words and simple phrases related to immediate needs. Can write basic personal information on simplified forms.

Employability: Can handle routine entry - level jobs that involve only the most basic oral or written communication in English and in which all tasks can be demonstrated.

Internet Audio Readings and Practice Exercises

Designed for beginning readers (pre-kindergarten to second grade), Animated Beginning Phonics covers upper- and lowercase letters, beginning and ending sounds, middle short vowel sounds, and beginning reading words. Sound is used extensively to help the child identify words and letters. Help is available as needed by the student. Pictures of more than 200 3D objects are used in the exercises. All menu items and directions are read aloud to the student to help prereaders navigate and operate the program.
When the student has completed a certain number of problems, they can visit the game room with puzzles and matching games (animated of course). The game room has a parent/teacher control so the number of problems that have to be completed before the student can play can be controlled (5 to 50, or you can close the game room.

For full multi-sensory self instruction in the 71 phonograms (sound/spelling pattern relationships); ideal to allow older students independence in learning what they may, at first, consider "baby work." The testing/worksheet booklet contains suggestions for applications in spelling and 47 rules of spelling, plural & syllabication.