Implement a literacy program

by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) Leah B. Walter (compiler)

© 1997 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.

Complete Table of Contents

Summary

This is the most extensive set of modules in the Literacy Bookshelf. It addresses the heart of a literacy program--teaching people to read and write. It is designed to give you the background and practical help you need to carry out the plans you have made. You will find help for recruiting and training personnel, choosing and developing an appropriate instructional program, producing needed materials, and managing and evaluating it all.

Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)

Developing an instructional program

Recruiting literacy personnel

Training literacy personnel

Planning a training program

Delivering training

Planning a workshop

Selecting literacy trainees

Scheduling training programs

Evaluating training

How to do pretraining evaluation

How to do summative training evaluation

How to do formative training evaluation

Planning a training activity

How to design a training curriculum

How to set priorities for the training curriculum

How to make lesson plans for a training course or workshop

Selecting training methods

Defining an instructional program

Choosing and modifying an instructional program

Developing instructional materials

Developing materials to teach reading and writing

Developing primers

Preparing a primer for the Gudschinsky instructional program

Planning primer lessons for the Gudschinsky instructional program

Preparing the first primer lessons for the Gudschinsky instructional program

Preparing new letter lessons for the Gudschinsky instructional program

Preparing functor lessons for the Gudschinsky instructional program

Preparing review lessons for the Gudschinsky instructional program

Preparing a primer for the literacy and social awareness instructional program

Making teaching aids

How to make a flip chart

How to make sentence building cards

How to make a syllable wheel

How to make a word bank

How to make a word map

How to make a word slide

How to make word building cards

Preparing a teacher's guide

Developing learner assessing tools and materials

Preparing tests for assessing reading and writing skills

Producing printed materials

Designing printed materials

Formatting printed materials

How to lay out printed materials using handwritten text

Setting margins

Placing page and lesson numbers on a page

How to lay out printed materials using typewritten text

Formatting computer text

Choosing a font

Choosing a font size

Setting line spacing

Using special font styles

Producing literature using shell books

Creating an electronic shell

Using patterned oral paraphrase

Editing literacy materials

Editing the content of literacy materials

Editing the structure of literacy materials

Editing the mechanical style of literacy materials

Preparing to print literacy materials

Preparing camera-ready copy

Printing literacy materials

Working with a print shop

Using a silk-screen printer

Deciding what ink or paint to use with a silk-screen printer

How to print on paper with a silk-screen printer

How to prepare to print with a silk-screen printer

How to print trial copies with a silk-screen printer

How to print multiple copies with a silk-screen printer

Drying silk-screened copies

How to print on fabric with a silk-screen printer

Designing and drawing a graphic for printing on fabric

Preparing a large hand-cut stencil

Preparing a silk-screen printer for printing on fabric

Preparing fabric for silk-screen printing

Printing on fabric

Drying printed fabric

How to print a poster with a silk-screen printer

Cleaning a silk-screen printer

How to make a silk-screen printer

How to make the base of a silk-screen printer

Making the screen frame of a silk-screen printer

Attaching the screen frame to the base of a silk-screen printer

Finishing the screen frame of a silk-screen printer

Attaching the fabric to the screen frame of a silk-screen printer

How to make a silk-screen applicator

Preparing mimeograph stencils

How to prepare a mimeograph stencil by hand

How to prepare a mimeograph stencil by using a typewriter

How to prepare a mimeograph stencil by using a dot matrix printer

How to correct a mimeograph stencil

Putting together a book

Deciding the size of a book

Binding a book

Stapling a book together

How to center-staple a book with a regular stapler

Sewing a book together

How to sew a book together by machine

How to sew a book together by hand

Taping a book

Arranging the pages of a center-bound book

How to determine the number of pages in a center-bound book

Example: How to determine the number of pages in a center-bound book

How to make a dummy book for a center-bound book

How to use the pagination diagram system

Example: How to paginate a 16-page book

Example: How to paginate a 22-page book

How to collate pages

Organizing literacy classes

How to organize a pilot class

Planning logistics for literacy classes

Preparing people to read and write

Developing reading readiness skills

Teaching someone to handle a book

Developing awareness of sounds

Teaching people to read and write

Planning lessons

Teaching lessons in an instructional program

Facilitating a lesson in a Freire instructional program

Teaching a lesson in a Gudschinsky instructional program

Teaching a lesson in a Literacy and social awareness instructional program

Teaching lessons in a Multistrategy instructional program

Teaching a story track lesson in a Multistrategy instructional program

Teaching a primer track lesson in a Multistrategy instructional program

Facilitating a lesson in a REFLECT instructional program

Developing literacy skills

Using a neurological impress activity

Using a language experience approach activity

How to create a language experience story

Using language experience stories

Using a cloze procedure

How to prepare texts for a cloze procedure

How to use a cloze procedure with oral reading

How to use a cloze procedure with silent reading

How to use a cloze procedure for reviewing spelling

Playing literacy games

How to play the Proverb card game

How to play literacy Dominoes

How to play the Memory game

How to play literacy Bingo

How to play the Snap game

How to play the “I spy” game

How to play the “I am going on a trip” game

How to make game cards

Developing reading skills

Using cued reading

Using duet reading

Using echo reading

Using group dynamic reading

Using lap reading

Using paired reading

Using repeated reading

Using shared reading

Using guided questioning

Using sustained silent reading

Using tape assisted reading

Developing writing skills

Using a dialogue journal

Using conference writing

Using guided writing

Using inventive spelling

Using a writing fluency activity

Developing spelling skills

Using recorded spelling

Having a spelling bee

How to teach phonics through writing

How to teach phonics through writing the first letters

How to teach phonics through writing sequences of sounds

How to teach phonics through writing whole words

Developing fluent readers

Using activities to develop fluent readers

Using cues for reading

Developing fluent writers

Using teaching aids

Managing a literacy program

Evaluating components of a program

Evaluating a literacy program

Testing and evaluating literacy materials

Testing various kinds of literacy materials

Testing storybooks and supplementary reading materials

Testing instructions

Testing instructional materials

Testing a primer

Training people to test a primer

Testing illustrations

Designing a test for literacy materials

Training people to administer literacy materials tests

Choosing people to take literacy materials tests

Assessing literacy learners

Reading and learning research, by Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor) and Leah B. Walter (contributor)

Reading research

Reading process

Reading models

Learning research

Learning theories

Developmental theories of learning

Developmental stages: Levinson

Developmental stages: Erickson

Developmental stages: Piaget

Behaviorist theories of learning

Early behaviorist theories of learning

Behaviorist theory of learning (Skinner)

Cognitive theories of learning

Information processing theory of learning

Information processing process

Schema theory of learning

Learning styles

Approaches to reading

Instructional programs, by Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), and Glenys Waters (contributor)

Reading and writing transition

Current instructional programs

The Freire instructional program

The Gudschinsky instructional program

Interactive instructional program

The Laubach Literacy International instructional program

The Literacy and social awareness instructional program

The Multistrategy instructional program

The whole language instructional program

Whole language reading readiness

The Freire lesson

The Gudschinsky lesson

The Laubach lesson

The Literacy and social awareness lesson

The Multistrategy primer track lesson

The Multistrategy story track lesson

The whole language lesson

Literacy materials, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)

The materials testing process

Primer testing questions

Kinds of literacy materials

Printing information

Materials needed to make a silk-screen printer

Paper sizes

Shell books

Entities who are designing shell books

Shells: Cameroon

Shells: Papua New Guinea

Evaluation

The evaluation process

Methods of evaluation and testing