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?

Dates to remember