If schools in Northern Ireland want to continue operating through English boards like AQA and OCR, those boards will have to agree to operate a separate
alphabetic grading system for Northern Ireland.
While skills have always been a part of reading instruction (witness all the bits and pieces of letter sounds and syllables in the
alphabetic approach), the skill as a fundamental unit of curriculum and the scope and sequence chart as a way of organizing skills that extend across the elementary
grades are twentieth century phenomena, nurtured, I would add, by the rapid expansion of commercial basal reading programs and standardized reading tests.
1 semester, 1/2 credit,
Grades 9 - 12 This course will emphasize improving
alphabetic as well as numeric keyboarding skills required for efficient computer use by high schools, colleges, and business alike.