Literacy
InitiaLit Reading and Spelling
Level 1
This term Reading and Spelling InitiaLit Program will include the following:
- Reading and spelling words with regular and irregular spelling patterns including digraphs
- Reading and spelling CVC (Consonant Vowel Consonant), CCVC, CVCC, and CCVCC words
- Reading and spelling with high frequency and irregular high-frequency (Tricky) words
- Reading different texts that include relevant spelling focuses
- Ongoing practise of reading fluency
- Reviews to assess reading and spelling growth
- Reading decodable books
- Increasing each students’ reading stamina
Level 2
This term’s Reading and Spelling InitiaLit Program will include the following:
- Reading and spelling words with various phonemes (sounds e.g. ai, ee, igh)
- Reading and spelling of multi-syllable words
- Morphology: word building using basic prefixes and suffixes
- Reading and spelling with high frequency and irregular high-frequency (Tricky) words
- Reviews to assess reading and spelling growth
- Reading decodable books
- Increasing each students’ reading stamina
Writing
Recounts
- Text structure
- Sentence structure
- Time connectives
- Descriptive language
- Editing
Persuasive Texts
- Text structure
- Sentence structure
- Descriptive language (adjectives)
- Adverbs
- Editing
Mentor Texts
- Exposing students to 'Good Writers'
- Looking and analysing mentor text
- Focusing, analysing and manipulating sentences/paragraphs
Readers
It has been great to see that the children have become a lot more confident with their readers and that they are independently changing their readers on their allocated days. Please ensure your child fills out his/her diary with the reading journal each day. They are required to write the date, title of the book they read and we ask that you sign the diary each day.
Please remember to ask your child lots of questions about the book that they are reading to make sure that they have a good understanding of what is happening inside the text. Some examples of questions that could help with comprehension are:
- What do you think the characters are feeling?
- What would you do if that happened to you?
- Why did that character want to do that?
- Would you change the ending, beginning or middle?
- What would you change in the story to make it more interesting?