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Word, Sentence and Text
Levels
When teachers teach learners to speak, listen, read and write in a language it
is called Literacy Teaching. For languages like English, literacy teaching has
three levels: Word Level Teaching (often referred to as Phonics), Sentence Level
Teaching and Text Level Teaching. The building blocks for Word Level Teaching
are phonemes (speech sounds) and graphemes (spelling choices); the building
blocks for Sentence Level Teaching are spoken and written words; and the
building blocks for Text Level Teaching are spoken and written sentences.
Reading Favourite Stories
All three levels require teachers to teach speaking, listening, reading and
writing skills and it is assumed, by most teachers, that teaching at one level
is supported by appropriate teaching at another e.g. in the same day, or even
the same lesson, young children may be exposed to work on phonics and yet,
later, be turning over the pages of a book, with the help of an older child or
adult, to 'pretend-read' a favourite story (apprenticeship reading).
Word Level: The Ten Skills
THRASS is a phonics programme (for the Word Level strand of Literacy Teaching).
Learners are taught ten skills, to help them understand about the phonemes and
graphemes in English words. They can:
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Locate
and name the outline pictures.
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Locate
and name the letters.
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Name
and correctly form the letters.
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Locate
and name the test graphemes.
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Locate
and name the keywords.
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Locate
and articulate the phonemes.
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Blend,
read and spell the keywords simultaneously with the soundtrack.
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Recall
the keygraphemes and keywords.
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Read,
spell and analyse the keywords.
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Read
and spell the basewords.
Fully
explained in the essential teaching guide TEACHING THRASS (T-50)
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