Starting Points: Supporting the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy
Starting Points describes the initial knowledge, skills and understandings required for adults to begin learning to read and write. This document was developed to complement and support the adult literacy learning progressions.
About Starting Points
- Overview
- Correlations with the reading and writing progressions
- Knowing the demands: using the starting points
- Knowing the learner: learning environments
- Knowing the learner: learner profiles
- Knowing the learner: assessment
- Knowing what to do: using this resource
- Principles of adult learning
- Social, cultural and historical perspectives
- Content and contexts
- The Starting Points
Listening vocabulary
Phonological awareness
- Levels of awareness
- Background information
- Knowing the demands
- Knowing the learner
- Knowing what to do
- Case study