Starting Points: Supporting the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy

About Starting Points

• Overview
• Correlations with the reading and writing progressions
• Knowing the demands: using the starting points
• Knowing the learner: learning environments
• Knowing the learner: learner profiles
• Knowing the learner: assessment
• Knowing what to do: using this resource
• Principles of adult learning
• Social, cultural and historical perspectives
• Content and contexts
• The Starting Points

Listening vocabulary

• Background information
• Knowing the demands
• Knowing the learner
• Knowing what to do
• Case study

Phonological awareness

• Levels of awareness
• Background information
• Knowing the demands
• Knowing the learner
• Knowing what to do
• Case study

Sound–letter (phoneme–grapheme) relationships

• Background information
• Knowing the demands
• Knowing the learner
• Knowing what to do
• Case study

Print and word concepts

• Background information
• Knowing the demands
• Knowing the learner
• Knowing what to do
• Case study

Letter formation

• Background information
• Knowing the demands
• Knowing the learner
• Knowing what to do
• Case study

Environmental print

• Background information
• Knowing the demands
• Knowing the learner
• Knowing what to do
• Case study

High-interest words

• Background information
• Knowing the demands
• Knowing the learner
• Knowing what to do
• Case study

Instructional strategies and approaches

• Instructional approaches

Web resources

• ESOL resources

Appendices

• A: Types of L1 literacy and effects on L2 literacy learning
• B: Principles of adult learning

References