An Ontology for a Literacy Teaching Its

This paper outlines the principles and functionalities of an authoring tool to support the development of intelligent tutoring systems to teach literacy, as part of a research on adult basic education. Considerations are made,about the main lines of the project: the basic system ontology, the organisation of the domain knowledge, the implementation of teaching activities, the declaration of the teaching strategies and the questions related to the student model. Many important aspects of the system ontology are detailed, as well as the particular subject domain ontology. Some of the issues on the integration of both ontologies are discussed. Keywords