Teaching Strategies for the Development

of Literacy Skills and Teaching

Resources
• Literacy are crucial for accessing the broader curriculum as they are
used in many aspects of our lives. Obtaining an acceptable level of
literacy can greatly enhance learners’ achievement because they are
used in many aspects of their lives. In this lesson, you will be
introduced to a range of teaching strategies that promote literacy and
how becoming literate expand the learners’ opportunities to access
wider understandings.
LITERACY
• This refers to the capability one acquires in order to read understand,
and construct textual material. This ability is useful in regular
academic and non-academic situations and contexts within the school
community and in different occupational areas.
TEACHING STRATEGIES.
• These refer to techniques, practices, approaches, and systems
teachers employ in their classroom practice to advance student
learning.
Strategies for the development of emergent
literacy skills and teaching resources:
• Pictures and objects
• Teaching is enhanced by use of photographs in curriculum with three
objectives, enhancement in perception level of students, easy
interpretation of context by the teacher and smooth understanding
by the learners.
Letters and words
• This instruction should include activities in which children learn to
identify and name letters and words. Children learn letter names by
singing songs such as the "Alphabet Song," and by reciting rhymes.
They learn letter shapes as they play with blocks, plastic letters, and
alphabetic books.
Sounds
• This early learning is the beginning of a child’s awareness of sound
and one of the foundation blocks for communication through
speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Read Aloud Experiences
• You can define words during a read-aloud by pointing out part of an
illustration that shows the meaning of a word, showing facial
expressions or moving your body in a way that provides explanation,
or giving a brief definition.
Reading aloud as part of your daily routine helps children to:

• hear language
• discover the way language works
• learn about the world
• develop their imagination
• become familiar with letters and
• sounds.
Beginning reading skills and teaching
resources
• Phonemic awareness
• Phonemic awareness has been recognized recently as an important
skill for learning to read and write. It is basically about tuning a child’s
ear to their culture’s language. There is evidence that providing
activities which raise children’s sensitivity to sounds used in spoken
language may prevent the difficulty some children experience in
writing and spelling (Snowball & Bolton, 1999).
 
2.Phonics instruction

• Phonics instruction is a way of teaching reading that stresses the

acquisition of letter-sound correspondences and their use in reading
and spelling.
 
• The primary focus of phonics instruction is to help beginning readers
understand how letters are linked to sounds (phonemes) to form
letter-sound correspondences and spelling patterns and to help them
learn how to apply this knowledge in their reading.
Fluency instruction

• Fluency instruction begins when students can read connected text

with 90% or better accuracy, usually by mid-year of first grade. Before
beginning fluency instruction, struggling readers may need additional
phonics and word-study instruction.
Vocabulary instruction
• Instruction in vocabulary involves far more than looking up words in a
dictionary and using the words in a sentence. Vocabulary is acquired
incidentally through indirect exposure to words and intentionally
through explicit instruction in specific words and word-learning
strategies
Comprehension instruction
• The purpose of reading is comprehension — getting meaning from
written text. ... A major goal of reading comprehension instruction,
therefore, is to help students develop the knowledge, skills, and
experiences they must have if they are to become competent and
enthusiastic readers.
Developing functional literacy
• 1. Participatory approach
• Participatory Learning Technique (PLT) is a way of organizing the
classroom that motivates learners to participate in the act of
teaching, a peer-based learning process. In this way, learning is
focused on increased student participation, so it is basically student
centered. Students interact and learn from each other.
21st Century literacy skills and teaching resources
1. Student-led learning (Cooperative learning)

• Student-led learning encourages children to think for themselves,

rather than simply following instructions, from an early age. Student-
led learning provides for a broader range of skill development and
learning styles than do academic approaches which impose a narrow
list of predetermined priorities. It simply means keeping things
flexible enough to meet individual student needs, including the needs
to take initiative and have a voice. (Because of the potential
confusion, many educators prefer to call this approach student-
centered learning or learner-centered education.)