Literacy

At Flinders View Primary School, we recognise that a whole school approach to English and Literacy learning is necessary to support and challenge all students. Our Whole-school English Literacy Agreement provides an outline to the agreed commitments for teaching and learning in the areas of English and Literacy, to ensure all teachers are confident, competent and consistent in teaching English and Literacy across the site.

Every student has the right to at least one year of growth in English for every year of learning. Students should be supported to develop a broad range of literacy skills that will enable them to be literate, productive and active citizens.

To ensure this happens, our school is committed to using High Impact Teaching Strategies with a focus on the Explicit Instruction Model (I do, We do, You do) to ensure students maximise their learning potential and growth.

As a school, we have a strong commitment to improving students English and Literacy skills in the areas of:

• • Oral Language
  • Reading
  • Writing

To do this our Teachers:

• • Intentionally plan for oral language development, scaffolding the language required to access the curriculum.
  • Establish daily reading programs that explicitly teach the Big Six components of Reading, including a strong program of explicit synthetic phonics.
  • Establish clear routines for writing and incorporate daily writing activities to enable learners to practise and build automaticity.

They also ensure the explicit teaching of at least two extended written texts per term