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New Horizons

Literacy Intervention

The litereacy intervention of the New Horizons Project created the publications below to improve literacy levels in students. These publications cover a broad range of strategies, and instructional methods to improve literacy in the Jamaican primary school classroom.

 

A Menu of Innovative Strategies in Literacy

AREAS OF EMPHASIS
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
A. From Phonics/Single-word Recognition to Context/Meaning

 1. Using Singing/Music to support Early Literacy Instruction relating to: Letter Name and Sounds, Phonemic Awareness etc.
2. Vocabulary Building-Sentence Transformation Activities
3. Word Maps/Semantic Maps
B. Specific Reading/Teaching Strategies
 4. Reciprocal Teaching
5. Self-Guided Thinking and Prediction trategies
6. The K-W-L Strategy

C. Reading and Writing Connections
7. Student’s Knowledge of Text Structures/Patterns in Comprehending
8. Sentence Reading Strategies
D. Integrating Literacy across the Curriculum
 9. Extra Reading Outside the Classroom
E. Responses to Literature
 10. Journals
F. Linking Music with Literacy
 11. Using “Story Map Raps” to create interest in understanding Story Elements.
G. Linking Numeracy with Literacy 12. Enhancing Literacy Instruction with Music

Comprehension Publication

Teacher's Guide To Comprehension Questions

Instructional Strategies Publication

A Menu of Suggested Instructional Strategies
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