Speak Out February 2019

Foundation Pre-Primary (WA), Transition (NT), Reception (SA) , Prep. (QLD, VIC, TAS), Kindergarten (NSW, ACT)

Literacy

Scheduling Early Literacy Programs

Movement & Motor

Oral Language

EARLY LITERACY: From Term 2 (or Semester 2 if appropriate)

Program Options

1st

Early Reading REMEMBER: While a proportion of the class will have progressed onto early reading activities, it is normal that a proportion of the class to be still working towards acquiring the prerequisites for reading: alphabet sound knowledge and phonemic blending. As students acquire blending ability, they are directed into the early reading process. For example: • 1st Step: Introduce reading regular CVC words on flash cards, games of bingo, Reading Race 1A app and within board games. • 2nd Step: Start instructing sight words. Initially focus on the Strategy 1 and 2 words from Teaching the First 25 Sight Words (Website Code: CCsight1 ) • 3rd Step: Commence decodable reading books in which the reading material gradually increases in complexity and length. Within such reading material, sight words and phonic concepts are progressively introduced and the text is predominately decodable. Early Spelling REMEMBER: While a proportion of the class will have progressed onto early spelling and writing activities, it is normal that a proportion of the class to be still working towards acquiring the prerequisites for spelling: alphabet letter recall/ formation and phonemic segmentation. Once segmentation is evident, commence introducing spelling and writing tasks. For example: • 1st Step: Introduce CVC spelling words with students utilising magnetic letters, play dough and wikki stix as well as utilising the PLD spelling app: PLD Spell Star 1A. • 2nd Step: CVC spelling words on the whiteboard and within simple sheets. • 3rd Step: Introduce handwriting of spelling words on paper (if fine motor skills are sufficiently developed). 2nd

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Literacy

First Reading Words

Foundation Literacy resources for Pre-Primary (WA), Kindergarten (NSW,ACT), Preparatory (QLD,VIC,TAS), Reception (SA)&Transition (NT)

Literacy

Stage1 Decoding and Spelling Games

First Reading Books Engaging,modern,controlled text readingbooks

Tomaximisegains in theearly reading phase,students requireaccess tohigh quality readingbooks.Qualityearly readingmaterialswill facilitate the opportunity forstudents to rehearse theirdecodingskills inacontext that gradually increases incomplexityand length.Within thedesignedbook lists, sightwordsandphonicconceptsare progressively introduced. The recommended readingbookshave beenorganised intosetsof takehome readersand in-classmultiplecopy sets to facilitateshared readingand repeated reading. Thebookshavebeenselected for 4 to6yearolds,whenstudentsarefirst learning to read.However, thebooks canbepresented toolderstudents whoareslow toprogresswithinother readingschemes. Thebooksaresuppliedwith identification labels toassistwith storageandorganisation.Thebooks, whichareavailableonly insetsand cannotbepurchasedas individual copies. Thebooksaredesigned to runalongside anevidence-basedstructuredsynthetic phonicsprogram. Research repeatedly reports that the gainsaregreatest from the initialyears ofschoolingwhenstudentsarefirst learning to read.Thesebooklistsare providedascost-effectiveoptions for schools tomodernise theirearly reading materialand toachieveapositivestart to reading for thestudents in theircare.

For theearlychildhoodyears

Website Code: CCfrw

Profiling theprecursorsofearly readingandspelling

Website Code: Bsw1

Home readersandmultiplesetsofshared readingbookscanbepurchased from www.pld-literacy.org

Website Code: HRset1, SRmulti1 (view reading books online)

Progress check: Term 3 & 4 The Early Reading Profile (Available for download on the website)

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Program Options

Literacy

Literacy

First Spelling Words

Stage1 Decoding and Spelling Games

Literacy

First Spelling Words

Set2

Set1

Website Code: CCfsw

For theearlychildhoodyears

Profiling theprecursorsofearly readingandspelling

Website Code: Bsw1

Website Code: CCfsw2

For theearlychildhoodyears

Progress check: Term 3 & 4 Phonic Sight Word Sequence Placement Test (Available for download on the website)

3rd

Finishing Sentences

Early Writing

Stage 1, phonic concept: oo

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Literacy

First Writing Activities

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Rubrics on the

Literacy

Stage1 Phonic Dictation

bottom of each page

For the juniorprimaryyears

Learning toapplyphonicknowledge toextendedwriting tasks.

Website Code: Mfwa

Website Code: Md1

Term 3 and 4: Refer to pages 16 and 17.

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Scheduling PLD Programs and Processes within a Whole School Literacy Strategy