Noble Park Primary School is committed to improving outcomes in Literacy by creating a learning environment that provides relevant, authentic and differentiated learning opportunities for all students. Students from Foundation to Year 6 engage in Literacy lessons for at least 8 hours a week. During this time Literacy skills are explicitly taught during structured lessons which include tuning in activities and small group instruction.
At Noble Park Primary School we implement the Little Learners Love Literacy program. Students move from novice readers and writers in the early years where they are taught letter sound patterns that enable them to lift the squiggles off the page, to become proficient decoders of texts and writers of words. The Little Learners Love Literacy Program is an explicit and sequential literacy approach for teaching children to read, write and spell with confidence.
This program is designed to be used across Foundation to Year 2 and focuses on the following:
To develop our teachers ability to implement the Little Learners Loves Literacy program, they actively engage in ongoing professional development and strengthen their practice though the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) approach. By implementing the Framework for Improving Student Outcomes (2.0) improvement cycle, staff refine their practice by analysing ‘real time data’ and tracking student progress at the cohort, class and individual level. Collaborative team planning meetings take place on a weekly basis and teaching teams review student progress, plan targeted learning interventions for all students and monitor progress.
Analysing Little Learners Loves Literacy data in teams has a direct and positive impact on student learning outcomes at Noble Park Primary School.
Useful Links:
Literacy and Numeracy Tips to Help Your Child Every Day
Victorian Curriculum English
High Impact Teaching Strategies
Little Learners Love Literacy
