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Activities and Assessments

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Activities and Assessments

Learning Module Steps

Step One: Students Find Signs and Take Photos

Teacher will paired up students and provide a paper copy students can reference to find pictures of street signs around the school neighbourhood. Each pair will receive 2 different signs they have to find and photograph. Ipads can be provided if needed. 

 

Step Two: Share Photos with the Teacher

The learner's photos will be shared with the teacher to her email or text message. Students will have to connect to school- provided wifi. Other students, volunteers or assistants can help with this process, if needed.

 

Step Three: Teacher Uploads Photos to a Wiki

Once the photos are received, the teacher can upload student photos to the wiki. (See Student View Page). This will take time, so the photos will be shown during the next computer lab or as an example before navigating, in the classroom.

 

Step Four: Students Interact with the Photos

During the lab, the students will click on the link (read) and view the class' photos. They will them complete the worksheet below which requires copying the words on the page. At the same time, will develop computer skills. Teacher should demonstrate use of the back arrow as students will have to return to their main page. An instructional assistant or volunteer is present to help learners who get lost.

1. ___________________ 2. __________________________ 

3. _________________________ 

 

4. _____________________  5. __________________________ 

6.. __________________________ 

 

7._________________________ 8.____________________________

9._____________________________

 


Vocabulary Recycling Classroom Practice

     "Findings from the vocabulary research suggest that adults can improve vocabulary through instruction and that effective instruction includes the opportunity to use new words many times and to process them deeply." (Kruidenier, MacArthur & Wrigley, 2010) Back in the classroom, learners can practice the new words by matching sign text on flashcards showing photos. They can do a matching worksheet where they must draw lines to match signs and text. They can copy words, filling in missing letters and write text removed from signs. Listening and speaking are not considered literacy skills, and are not being assessed in this learning module, but both are part of learning new vocabulary. The teacher will say the new words and learners often repeat, but this module targets reading, so only reading will be assessed as the LINC program requires real world tasks as assessments. Reading signs is a real life action. 

 

Matching Task

Match. Draw a line.

 

school zone 

 

Parking for People with Disabilities 

 

Speed 

 

Street Name 

 

 

Assessing Learner Reading and Evaluating the Activity

     

     Learners can be assessed in reading by the following task. In a one-on-one assessment, the teacher will show the learner a photo of a sign. He must pick out the word from a group of eight words on small cards on a table. A correct choice counts as one mark in a checklist. This will demonstrate a beginning reading ability, or recognition of a word. To pass, a learner must get six out of eight correct. If a learner does not achieve six, more practice is needed and the test can be given at a later date. The reason the learner is not assessed on a computer is due to what is often a lack of computer skills. 

 

To assess how well the learners enjoyed the module, a simple 3-point rating scale can be used to obtain learner feedback.

 

Circle one.

Learning with computers is good for me.

I like learning with computers.

 

YES

Learning with computers is okay.

 

SO-SO

Learning with computers

is not good for me.

                  NOT GOOD

 

 

 

Kruidenier, J. R., MacArthur, C. A., & Wrigley, H. S. (2010). Adult education literacy instruction: A review of the research. Washington, DC: National Institute for Literacy.

 

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