Have you heard at home any interest about the Junior Level initiative Little Learners Love Literacy? This is a new program to the school where students are exposed to an explicit and sequential literacy approach for teaching children to read, write and spell with confidence. Little Learners Love Literacy is a multi-sensory and engaging program with focussed explicit lessons, games, crafts, music, puppets, drawing and much more.  Decodable Books are the ‘secret ingredient’ for success. They only use the sounds and letters children have been explicitly taught allowing them to apply their learning and build confidence. These are Australian books children LOVE to read with words they CAN read. This program also ties in perfectly with the ‘Wushka’ reading website that all students now have access to for home reading. 

The Little Learners Love literacy program focuses on:

• Phonemic awareness and phonics for spelling and reading
• Handwriting
• Reading fluency
• Vocabulary and comprehension.

We hope you have the opportunity to engage with your child at home about the program, in particular the characters we meet, songs we sing and games we play.

From the Junior Team (Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 teachers)