Our school has committed to the development of a whole school approach to the teaching of Literacy. This encompasses common pedagogical approaches as well as the development of a scope and sequence that guides staff in planning, pedagogy, targeted outcomes, and the measurement of student progress reflecting the mandated outcomes of the School Curriculum and Standards Authority in the following:-
Phonemic Awareness (the ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds in words)
Alphabetic Principle (the understanding that letters represent the speech sounds of our language)
Vocabulary (words we must know to communicate effectively)
Fluency (the ability to read text accurately, quickly and with appropriate expression)
Comprehension (literal, inferential and critical understanding of a text)
Grammar (morphology, syntax and punctuation)
Our whole school literacy programs include:
- Heggerty Phonemic Awareness K – Year 2
- PLD – A Whole School Approach to Spelling
- Multi-Lit - a small group program used for intervention
- Talk4Writing K - Year 2
- Seven Steps for Writing Year 3 - 6
