Pre-Literate Class Curriculum Template Page 3
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28Pre-literate students have had little or no formal school experience in their native
countries. These students are beginning to learn reading and writing at the level of
young children but they are intelligent adults with the ability to reason at a high level
and have had adult experiences. Have them read the alphabet aloud after they put it in
order.
Pre-literate adult students learning a new language, unlike children raised within that
language environment, have very little familiarity with the vocabulary they are about
to learn to read and write. Pre-literate learners need to develop an oral understanding
of words before they can decipher, or decode the written words which represent them.
A lot of repetition and review is necessary before students begin to absorb the
language.
Worksheets, rather than workbooks, are the primary teaching tools for this class.
Flashcards, activities, and games should be used extensively but with the purpose of
reinforcing vocabulary learned in the class binders.
There will be one pre-literacy class (10 weeks) offered each session. Some students
will be able to move to the beginning level of the curriculum after the first session but
some students will repeat the pre-literacy class twice or even more.
The lesson material will be reviewed and recycled throughout the session. The
alphabet and numbers, especially, should be reviewed every day. Every lesson
should contain practice in speaking, listening, reading and writing,
Test taking skills such as matching, filling in blanks, and choosing from among
multiple-choices, are not familiar to most of the students. Therefore, these skills will
be taught through warm-up and wrap-up exercises.
The students should have at least one finished worksheet to take home each day. They
should be able to study these worksheets and feel that they are meaningful. The
teacher will collect all practice worksheets, test worksheets, and practice materials that
are simply repetitive and don’t have significant learning value for the students. This
will decrease clutter which may be confusing for students.
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