DRAFT: 3 Levels of Literacy: Phonetic, Lexical, Cultural (Conceptual)

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There are Three Levels of Literacy:

  • 1. Phonetic Literacy
  • 2. Lexical Literacy
  • 3. Cultural Literacy

Pace Hirsch, who only seems to recognize 1 and 3…

Write up notes on this… in Cultural Literacy book

Tools OTA Uses to Teach Each Level:

• 1 Phonetic Literacy:

  • Paper & Pencil Based (i.e. inherently boring and flawed… but effective): Saxon Phonics;
  • iPad Based: Montessorium Intro to Letters; Montessorium Alpha Writer

• 2 Lexical Literacy (direct instruction in academic vocabulary, key ideas; indirect instruction: reading vocabulary rich non-fiction titles)

  • iPad Based: Activated Reader (coming soon), RAZ Kids (flawed– Lexile leveled– system but best we have for intensive, vocabulary-rich, non-fiction reading for now); ThatQuiz Civics, History, etc. quizzed; Zingy Science Online Learning
  • Book Based: Non-Fiction and Fiction Core Knowledge Titles for Each Grade; Independent Reading Pies

• 3 Cultural Literacy (knowledge in a domain: history-civics, science, math, music, etc.)

  • Entire K-8 Core Knowledge® Humanities Sequence
  • OTA 8 Core Learning Strands

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