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EDU410 : Teaching of Literacy Skills

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Course Info

Course Category

 Humanities Distribution

Course Level

 Undergraduate

Credit Hours

 3

Pre-requisites

 N/A

Instructor

 Ms. Khalida Sarwar
MA ELTL, MA Eng Lit.

Course Contents

1 Concept of Literacy 2 What is Meant by Literacy Skills? 3 Different Types of Literacy Skills 4 Learning Literacy Skills 5 Significance of Literacy Skills 6 Literacy Skills in Classrooms 7 What is Language? 8 Different Levels of Language 9 Phonology 10 Morphology 11 Syntax 12 Semantics and Pragmatics 13 Acquisition and Learning 14 Difference between Acquisition and Learning 15 Native Language 16 Second Language 17 Foreign Language 18 Regional Language 19 First Stage 20 Second Stage 21 Third Stage 22 Fourth Stage 23 Fifth Stage 24 Sixth Stage 25 Need for Guidelines 26 Language Development 27 Language Model 28 Literacy Models 29 Literacy Classroom 30 Starting from Basics 31 What is a Code? 32 Code Breaker 33 Meaning Making 34 Using Text 35 Analyzing Text 36 Examples 37 Student-centered 38 Teacher-centered 39 Roles of Teacher 40 Details of Teacher’s Roles 41 Activity Based 42 Conclusion 43 Alphabetic Principle 44 Introducing Alphabets 45 Alphabetic Order 46 Relate with Sound 47 Practice 48 Letters on String 49 Large Letters 50 Alphabet Cookies 51 Letter Cards 52 Letter Boxes 53 Letter Pounding 54 Lack of Alphabetic Understanding 55 Alphabetic Principle Skills 56 Kindergarten Skills 57 First Grade Skills 58 Importance of Lowercases 59 When to Teach Lowercase Letters 60 Letter Confusion 61 Lowercase Letters - Some Activities 62 Phonemic Code 63 Importance of Phonemic Code 64 Problem with Phonemic Code 65 Keep in Mind 66 Phonology and Phonetics 67 Phonemes 68 Phonics 69 Phonemic Awareness 70 What are these? 71 Consonant Phonemes 72 Manner of Articulation 73 Different Types 74 Stop 75 Nasals 76 Fricatives 77 Affricates 78 Approximant 79 Points of Articulation introduction 80 Topic80: Different Points 81 Topic81: Different points at a glance 82 Topic82: Concluding Remarks 83 Teaching Consonant Sounds 84 Presentation of consonants 85 Distinguishing between two or more beginning consonants sounds 86 Some Activities: worksheet 87 Consonant Sounds at Higher Level 88 Voiced & Voiceless 89 Place of Articulation 90 Manner of Articulation 91 Symbols and Chart 92 Vowel sounds 93 Vowel sounds pronunciation 94 Types of English vowel sounds 95 Vowel triangle 96 Short vowels 97 List of short vowels 98 Schwa 99 Short vowels on triangle 100 Long vowels 101 Long vowel on triangle 102 Long vowel sounds 103 Short and Long vowels 104 Diphthongs 105 1st Group: Ending on Schwa 106 2nd Group: Ending on /I/Sound 107 3rd Group: Ending on /?/Sound 108 All in One Glance 109 Triphthongs 110 Triphthongs on Triangle 111 Difficulty with Triphthongs 112 Triphthongs in one glance 113 5 Steps in Learning Phonics 114 Topic no 114 115 Step-4 words with double/triple consonant blends. 116 Advance phonics: diphthongs and diagraphs. 117 Teaching Vocabulary 118 To Know a Word 119 What Makes a Word Difficult? 120 Topic no 120 121 1st Stage: Understanding 122 2nd Stage: Recognising New Words 123 3rd Stage: Producing Vocabulary 124 Idioms and Collocations 125 Difficulty: Idioms and Collocation 126 1stStage: Introduction 127 2nd Stage:Practice 128 3rd Stage: Production 129 Teaching Spellings 130 Strategies for Teaching ‘Spellings’ 131 Some More Strategies for Spellings 132 Literacy classroom 133 Teaching spellings at higher stage 134 Word study 135 Explaining word study 136 How word study is done? 137 What is Grammar? 138 Teaching Grammar 139 Strategies for teaching Grammar 140 Types of Grammar Activities 141 Teaching parts of speech 142 Teaching at first stage 143 Teaching at second stage 144 Recognizing the parts 145 Teaching tense 146 Simple or indefinite tense 147 Progressive or continuous tense 148 Perfect tense: 149 Perfect continuous tense 150 General tips for tenses 151 Summing Up Tenses 152 Helping Verbs 153 Regular/Irregular Verbs 154 Articles 155 Definite Article 156 Clauses & Phrases 157 Types of Clauses 158 Independent Clauses 159 Dependent Clauses 160 Types of Dependent Clauses 161 Some other clauses 162 Modals 163 Using Modals 164 Forming Questions 165 Types of Sentences 166 Punctuation 167 What is listening? 168 Types of Listening 169 Principles of Listening 170 Teaching Principles of Listening 171 Listening Strategies 172 Metacognitive Strategies 173 Listening for Meaning 174 Listening Activities 175 What is speaking? 176 Types of Speaking 177 Principles of Speaking 178 Teaching Principles of Speaking 179 Speaking Strategies 180 Pronunciation 181 Some Tips 182 Speaking Activities 183 What is Reading? 184 Reading Proficiency 185 Skimming and Scanning 186 Reading Strategies 187 Integrating Strategies 188 Summing Up Strategies 189 What is writing? 190 Types of Writing 191 Writing Strategies 192 Writing Strategies (II) 193 More about writing 194 Criteria for Writing 195 Cohesion and Coherence 196 Writing Activities 197 Basic Terms 198 Grammar Translation Method/GTM 199 Audio Lingual Method/ALM 200 Direct Method 201 Communicative Method 202 Cooperative Learning
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