Literacy education is fundamental to children’s success at all levels of education from early childhood to tertiary. Effective literacy programs enable students to see connections between reading and writing and allow them to engage in extended dialogues about their learning.
Literacy is broken into 3 domains: Reading and Viewing, Writing and Speaking and Listening. At AGPS we are committed to allocating a minimum of 10 hours per week to literacy instruction.
A typical literacy session would include a Learning Intention and Success Criteria, whole class explicit focus with teacher modelling, collaborative practice, independent practice, goal setting, feedback as well as a reflection...
