Using Tilley Adventures in Reading, students have opportunities to:

Reading

• Segment and blend sounds in words using phonic knowledge, and apply these skills to unfamiliar words in context
• Use word boundaries, capital letters, and punctuation to construct and confirm the meaning of text
• Use knowledge of context, picture cues, letters, words, sentences, predictable patterns and phonic cues to construct and confirm the meaning of text
• Use strategies such as language prediction, re-reading or reading on to identify unknown words within the context of a sentence
• Identify familiar words and high frequency words by sight in print text
• Retell stories previously read, identifying beginning, middle and end
• Identify the main idea in a story
• Answer comprehension questions related to the text

Writing

• Use conventional spelling for high frequency words used in their writing
• Demonstrate an awareness of upper and lower case letters and punctuation in written work, and use them to assist comprehension
• Use phonic knowledge and skills, and visual memory, to attempt spelling of words needed for writing

Working With Words

• Associate sounds with letters and some letter clusters
• Use knowledge of consonant and short vowel sounds to spell phonically regular one syllable words
• Use analogy to generate and read phonically regular word families

Using Technology

• Access, use and communicate information from a computer
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the operating skills required to use a computer

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