Literacy and Learning in Pre-Primary March 2021

What to teach? When to screen? How to cater for the range in ability?

This one day Literacy and Learning seminar for Pre-primary provides educators with the knowledge and tools they will require to explicitly target pre-literacy and early literacy in a systematic fashion.

 

The Foundation school year is an incredibly important year of literacy learning and it is essential that as many students receive a positive start to their schooling and literacy development.

 

Young students require multiple opportunities to rehearse their emerging pre and early literacy skills. PLD recommends three targeted teaching groups, defined on the basis of the PLD student tracking.

 

Recommended for staff working within Pre-primary (WA), this seminar explores:

 

• How children typically read first, spell second and write third.
• The two core skills that enable a child to decode, the three core skills that facilitate early spelling and the range of skills that facilitate writing.
• Pre-literacy skill development early in the school year, so that the foundations for literacy are established.
• A time efficient pre-literacy assessment to track skill development and readiness for reading and spelling.
• How to introduce reading, spelling and writing in an early childhood manner so that early literacy learning is enjoyable.
• Time efficient decoding and spelling assessments.
• The instruction of high frequency words and the relevance of decodable reading material.
• Short ‘speech pathology’ derived oral language activities which facilitate the ability to speak in grammatically correct sentences.

 

For more information or to view this seminar flyer, click here.