Learning and Teaching: Literacy
Building the Knowledge, Skills and Confidence for Lifelong Learning
Saint Peter's Primary School
MACS Vision for Instruction – Our Approach at St Peter’s
The MACS Vision for Instruction provides a research-informed framework that guides teaching and learning at St Peter’s. Through high expectations and explicit instruction, teachers break learning into manageable steps, model new skills and provide guided practice, feedback and targeted support to ensure every student makes progress.
In Literacy, we prioritise the systematic teaching of reading and writing, including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension, alongside spelling, grammar and oral language. Our focus is on building strong foundations, addressing individual learning needs and ensuring every student is supported and challenged to achieve their full potential.
Building Reading Fluency: Developing Accuracy, Automaticity and Expression
Building Fluency in word recognition to gain automaticity:
At St Peter’s, we continue to build reading fluency across Years 3–6 through explicit and regular practice in accuracy, pace, phrasing and expression. Students engage in repeated reading, teacher modelling, paired reading and opportunities to read a range of increasingly complex texts. Teachers monitor students’ fluency and provide targeted feedback to develop automatic word recognition, allowing students to devote more attention to vocabulary, comprehension and deeper understanding of what they read. Our goal is to develop confident, fluent readers who read with meaning, expression and understanding.