Letter to School for Information on Literacy Objectives

By: Louise Tobias BA (hons) - Updated: 27 Sep 2012 | *Discuss

 

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Lets first look at the importance of literacy objectives within a child's education. These objectives are part of the government's intention to boost literacy- reading and writing skills - and as such they are integrated into the National Curriculum style of teaching in state schools. Literacy objectives are made up of twelve main issues to guide students towards achieving their key goals. These are: speaking for a broad range of purposes and in various situations, doing the same with listening and responding, interacting with group discussion, getting involved in drama, word recognition in terms of understanding reading and spelling, knowing about word Structure and how to spell, comprehending and analysing texts, engaging and responding to those texts, writing and adapting texts, organising texts, awareness of how to form sentences and punctuate them, and presentation skills.

These strands are very bound up with the Early Learning Goals that are integrated into the National Curriculum, as taught in state schools - they are generally taught through reading a range of books and other texts, and teaching creative writing and other forms of writing. These objectives are in place with the hope that they will help a child's academic development. Parents may therefore want to know more about the way that their child's school integrates these objectives into the learning day in order to find out more about their child's education.

This letter format laid out below is a sample letter from fictional parents to a made-up school where the parents are asking the school for more information on their literacy goals. The letter can be used as an example of the best way to ask your child's school about their own reading and writing lessons and goals, to ensure a helpful response.

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