The Ladder of Literacy

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The Ladder of Literacy
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Introduction

• Learning to read is like climbing a ladder.
• A person is not illiterate one day and literate
  the next.
• It is a gradual climb and there is no top to a
  ladder of literacy.
• Everyone can continue climbing to achieve their
  personal goals.

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The Laubach Way to Reading

• LWR uses a structured format, enabling a
  volunteer with no teaching experience to be a
  successful tutor.
• The LWR series teaches more than 260 basic
  reading skills in a systematic, sequential way.

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The Laubach Way to Reading

• There are many ways to teach reading and writing.
• The Laubach Way to Reading is one way that has
  proven effective with adults with little or no
  reading ability.
• Designed to teach students to read the language
  they speak as quickly and enjoyably as possible

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Content of LWR

• There are four Skill Books in the series.
• The books enable a beginning student to acquire a
  reading level of approximately fifth grade.

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Skill Book 1

• Lays the foundation for reading.
• Teaches one sound for each letter, and how to
  blend the sounds to decode words.

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Skill Book 1

• Workbook for Student

• Crossword Puzzles

• Focus on Phonics-1

• Supplementary Readers
• In the Valley
• More Stories 1

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Skill Book 2

• The LWR series sorts out the difficult sound
  system of the English language.
• The English sound system comprises of
• 26 letters make up 43 sounds
• 18 sounds for the five vowels
• 22 spellings for the five long vowel sounds
• 88 of common English words have regular
  spellings.

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How many sounds does the letter e make in
following sentence?
The little bee is on the beautiful red flower.
How many sounds does the letter e make in
sentence below?
Ellen Bell sells fresh eggs.
The Laubach Way to Reading Series avoids
confusion by teaching only one vowel sound at a
time.
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Skill Book 2

• Workbook for Student

• Focus on Phonics-2b
• Consonant Blends

• Pat Kings Family

• Focus on Phonics-2a
• Short Vowel Sounds

• Two for the Road

• Supplementary Readers
• City Living
• More Stories 2

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Skill Book 3

• Introduces long vowel sounds.
• Includes longer stories with material relevant to
  the students life.
• Includes practical, life skills material.
• Introduces cursive writing.

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Skill Book 3

• Workbook for Student

• Crossword Puzzles

• The Many Ears of CB
• Radio

• Focus on Phonics-3
• Long Vowel Sounds

• Five Dog Night

• Supplementary Readers
• Changes
• More Stories 3
• Laubach Way to Cursive Writing

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Skill Book 4

• Presents the remaining vowel sounds such as /oo/,
  /ou/, /oi/, etc.
• Presents consonant sounds with irregular
  spellings (ph, kn, etc.)
• By the end of this book, students will have
  learned all of the word attack and phonic skills
  needed to decode words.
• Students will know how to look up words in a
  dictionary.

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Skill Book 4

• Workbook for Student

• Focus on Phonics-4
• Other Vowel Sounds
• Consonant Spellings

• Crossword Puzzles

• Supplementary Readers
• People and Places
• More Stories 4

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Teachers Manual

• Very detailed instructions for the tutor.
• Reduced copies of each page from Skill books to
  help in preparing lessons.

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Supplementary Materials

• Checkup
• Provides means of assessing how the student and
  tutor are doing
• What needs added emphasis or reinforcement as
  student progresses
• Certificate
• Given to recognize the students completion of
  each level

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ANY QUESTIONS