Literacy Level LL/HL |
Skills |
Character Structure |
Identify uniqueness of Chinese writing system |
Character configurations |
Character components |
Hand writing in standard stroke order |
Recognize characters automatically (build automaticity) (sounds) |
Morphological awareness: Use the meaning of the individual morphemes in a word to figure out the meaning of new words |
Use lexical compounding strategies to form new words. |
Infer the meaning of compound words |
Syntactic awareness: phrases and sentences |
Segment the words of phrases and sentences |
Build automaticity |
Text cohesion: connecting
words, coreference |
Identify connectors (time references, pronouns, cause-effect, sequence, etc.) |
Read selectively (tolerate unknown words, select relevant information) |
Literal meaning |
Identify facts within a text (by asking Wh questions) |
Identify signal words that indicate textual relations and supporting ideas(ie. time references, connectives) |
Skim and scan to gain the main idea of each paragraph (find keyphrases in each paragraph) |
Ask questions while reading to check for comprehension |
Monitor your own comprehension |
Inferential meaning ("read between the lines") |
Predict the content based on the title and any illustrations |
Activate background knowledge to enhance comprehension |
Predict following or subsequent content |
Answer and ask inferential question as an active reader |
Evaluative judgement ("go beyond the text") |
Identify the author's point of view, the purpose of the text, and the intended audience |
Evaluate the author's argument |
