Little learners love literacy (Prep to year 2)
- Little Learners Love Literacy is a structured synthetic phonics approach for teaching children to read, write and spell with confidence.
- Evidence-based literacy research stresses the importance of explicit and sequential literacy teaching from the beginning.
- Little Learners Love Literacy is a systematic and engaging program with focused explicit lessons, games, music, puppets, drawing and much more.
- Little Learners Love Literacy is designed to be used whole class in Foundation to Year 2 and forms the basis of our tier 2 within classrooms, targeted instruction.
- The program focuses on:
- Phonemic awareness and phonics for spelling and reading
- Handwriting
- Reading fluency
- Vocabulary and comprehension.
- The sequence also includes morphology.
PhOrMeS (Year 3 to year 6)
- Standing for PHonology, ORthography, Morphology, Etymology and Semantics, PhOrMeS is not, simply, a phonics program.
- While it uses systematic, synthetic phonics to teach early decoding and spelling, it aims to teach children proficiency in many areas of our deep, challenging and beautiful English language.
- The ability to comprehend, evaluate and analyse what we read, and write an array of genres for a plethora of audiences is part of the end goal of literacy learning. PhOrMeS is designed to give children the building blocks they need to achieve these critical skills.
- Word Reading, or decoding, is taught in a sequential manner. Beginners are taught to read short, simple, phonetically regular words and progress to increasingly more difficult words across their primary schooling.
- Spelling is best taught side-by-side with word reading/decoding. This is what PhOrMeS does. Students are taught to spell words with the same target graphemes, spelling rules, morphological concepts or etymological roots they are learning to read.
- Phonemic Awareness is both taught separately and embedded in word reading and spelling activities and reading Fluency is practised daily.