Literacy

Literacy in room 23


 * Students participate in the Early Years of Literacy program every day. This might be in the form of Rotational Activities, where students receive teacher guidance in small groups, during whole class instruction, independent writing tasks, and oral language opportunities. **

Students are provided with ** Speaking and Listening ** opportunities to develop their competence and confidence in small and large groups. Students learn to convey meaning effectively by using varying tone, volume, pace of speech and sound effects. They learn appropriate strategies for taking turns in informal situations. With teacher guidance, students prepare oral presentations with relevant content presented in logical sequences. During ** Reading ** opportunities, students read, listen to, browse through and discuss fictional and factual texts, including novels, short stoeis, poetry and a range of mass media texts. Students extend their knowledge of grammar and punctuation to assist their reading. They strengthen their comprehension skills by re-reading sections of text when meaning is lost, discussing the underlying themes in fictional texts such as character, setting and plot, and interpreting information from non-fictional texts using the index and glossary pages, diagrams, keys, legends and labels. Students also identify with the texts on literal, inferential and applied levels **. ** Students use the library as an important resource, and appreciate the need to use more than one text when completing research. Students complete ** Writing ** tasks including a range of imaginative, fictional, and factual texts. They are expected to complete pieces of writing using the drafting process, including full grammar and punctuation conventions. Students form letters correctly and develop legible and fluent handwriting. They use software in order to publish their work and access online website and games to further develop their understanding of many classroom concepts. 