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Examples of symbol literacy
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Writing with Symbols

Supporting Communication
1. General Conversation
2. Talking About..
3. Conversation
4. Recording

Supporting Independence
5. Control
6. Schedules
7. Group Planning
8. Organization

Supporting
Learning

9. Class Symbols
10. Developing
11. Curriculum
12. Worksheets + Cards
13. Recipes
14. Checking
15. Recording
16. Understanding
17. Literacy
18. Working Habits
19. Sentence Building
20. Starting to Write
21. Making Choices
22. Word Building
23. Language Learning

Supporting
Creativity

24. Authorship
25. Motivation
26. Own Drawings
27. Status
28. Group Writing
29. Comprehension
30. Story Books
31. Poetry + Literature
32. Language Sounds

Supporting Information
33. Internet + Email
34. SymbolWorld.org

Acknowledgements

10. Developing understanding

 

a classroom activity using symbols to retell a story

Task: to support understanding of a storyline, and sequence events

Outcome: Excellent sequencing of landmarks Rosie passes.
Children enjoyed using pictures to re-tell the story.
Facilitated understanding and helped expression of story.

symbol cards used in the classroom to express the story

Using the same approach to develop their own stories.