Teaching & Learning Focus
Carly Avery
Teaching & Learning Focus
Carly Avery
Teaching and Learning Focus: Spelling
Following professional development on the Science of Reading and research in this area in 2021, we are implementing Sounds-Write in our junior classrooms this year. Markeeta Green (Intervention Leader) and Bianca Vesico (F/1 Teacher), both undertook Sounds Write Training in term four 2021. Diana Rinaldi (F/1 Teacher) and Josh Carr (2/3 Teacher), are both currently undertaking this training. This will ensure that during 2022 Sounds-Write will be implemented in our junior school.
Sounds-Write provides the classroom practitioner with rigorous training in how to teach reading and spelling from the moment children begin their schooling in the Foundation Stage.
Sounds-Write’s instructional method works effectively because it:
Our senior teachers, Trish Shaw (Year 4 Teacher) Mark Butters (Year 5/6 Teacher) and I will be undertaking professional development this term with Dr Tessa Daffern, in the area of spelling. Dr Tessa Daffern is working with several schools across Sandhurst as a trial in the area of phonics/ spelling. This approach will complement the work done with the UMNOS project and the Sounds-Write approach in the junior school.