Learning & Teaching

Leader: Stephanie Hayes

Phonics

At St Patrick’s Primary School we have started to introduce students in Foundation-Grade 2 to a literacy-based program called ‘Little Learners Love Literacy’ (LLLL’s). This is an engaging and evidence-based program. Through this program students will have sequential and explicit learning experiences. It is carefully sequenced into seven stages to teach children the 44 sounds of the English language and the principles of alphabetic code. In the image you will see a little breakdown of the stages.

To continue to explore the Little Learners Love Literacy program and begin to explain and phase out decodable readers we will be providing information this term and next via: 

The Newsletter, Emails  Facebook, or Information sessions at the school

 

Teachers - Professional Learning 

Last week the teachers at St Patrick’s completed some learning of their own. The teachers worked with a Literacy Coach, where they learnt all about ‘Morphology’. After the morning session teachers were able to answer these 3 questions:

What is Morphology?

Why do we teach it?

How do we teach it?

The other parts of the day consisted of the teachers creating their very own Morphology lessons and also they worked together to create a whole school Morphology Scope and Sequence (mapping out what students learn from Foundation to Grade 6).  

Key takeaways: Essentially morphology is the study of words and their parts. Morphemes, like prefixes, suffixes and base words, are defined as the smallest meaningful units in a word. Morphology is a critical element for successful vocabulary development and accurate decoding. 

Morphology is the link between phonics and comprehension.