Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy: Background Information
This resource supplements the learning progressions for adult literacy and numeracy by providing the theoretical basis for each strand and for the progressions within each strand.
Introduction
- The need for a focus on reading, writing, speaking, listening and numeracy
- The adult learning progressions
- The progressions and Te Reo Rangatira (the Māori language)
The theoretical basis for the learning progressions
The learners
Connecting the learners and the progressions
Background to the listening, speaking, reading and writing progressions
Listen with Understanding, Speak to Communicate
- The demands of listening and speaking
- Listening comprehension
- Listening critically
- Speaking to communicate
- Vocabulary for listening and speaking
- Interactive communication
- ESOL learners: listening and speaking
Read with Understanding
- What is involved in adults’ reading?
- Rationale for the sequence of the reading progressions
- Decoding
- Vocabulary for reading
- Knowledge of language and text features for reading
- Reading comprehension
- Reading critically
- ESOL learners: the demands of reading
Write to Communicate
- Writing as a process
- Rationale for the sequence of the writing progressions
- Spelling
- Vocabulary for writing
- Knowledge of language and text features for writing
- Planning and composing
- Revising and editing
- ESOL learners: the demands of writing
Background to the numeracy progressions
- What is numeracy?
- Key concepts
- The progressions and the research base
- Using the numeracy progressions
- Make Sense of Number to Solve Problems
- Reason Statistically
- Measure and Interpret Shape and Space