The Learning Staircase

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The Learning Staircase………….

Literacy approaches often do not work with learners with difficulties because they do not have the skills needed to process the information itself.

There is no point teaching a learner which letters go with which sounds if they can’t process (identify, blend and sequence) the sounds in the first place.

It is of limited use to present the learner with word after word to learn, if he/she has major difficulties with visual perception or visual memory.

The most effective approach is to develop all of the underlying processing and cognitive skills at the same time as teaching the literacy knowledge. This is done by ensuring that the learner sees and uses the word in a wide variety of contexts.

The learner will do a whole series of activities in the order specified to make sure that he/she can:

Read the word confidently and without hesitation
Recognise the word instantaneously
Put the word into context
Spell the word
Break the word into individual sounds
Blend the word together (from sounds or chunks)
Define the wordType or write the word
Automatic revision is built into the Steps – this will also analyse the learner’s errors and produce individualised units for that learner.

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