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Batemans Bay Public School is committed to providing evidence based, best practice in teaching literacy. With a new NSW English curriculum and a revised evidence base, we spent over $40,000 in updated literacy resources to support best teaching and learning for our students.
Batemans Bay Public School is committed to providing evidence based, best practice in teaching literacy. With a new NSW English curriculum and a revised evidence base, we spent over $40,000 in updated literacy resources to support best teaching and learning for our students.
We follow a Structured Literacy Approach to teaching literacy at Batemans Bay Public School. This involves instruction in the 6 key components of oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension in a highly explicit and systematic manner.
Learning to Read
Learning to Read
Students at Batemans Bay Public School learn to read using their knowledge of letter-sound relationships and specialised readers called Decodable texts.
A decodable text is a type of text used in beginning reading instruction. Decodable texts are carefully sequenced to progressively incorporate words that are consistent with the letter–sound relationships that have been taught to the new reader.
In the beginning of Kindergarten, students will first learn the sounds s,a,t,p,i,n and then use their knowledge of these sounds to read decodable books such as this one:
Learning to Read
Learning to Read
Another important component of learning to read is children being Read To. Language comprehension is developed through students listening to and engaging with Authentic, Rich Texts.
Reading quality picture books to your child daily can be one way to support their literacy learning at home.
Learning to Write
Learning to Write
As students learn about the sounds for reading, they will also be engaged in using these sounds to write simple words. Here are some of the first words your kindergarten child may begin to write.
Phonics
Phonics
We teach phonics in a systematic and explicit way using the sound waves resources to support our instruction.
Phonological Awareness
Phonological Awareness
Phonological awareness is the understanding that words are made up of smaller sound units such as rhymes, syllables and phonemes (individual sounds). We have a strong focus on phonological awareness in kindergarten as these skills underpin successful reading.
Reading To
Reading To
Teachers read quality picture books to our students a number of times daily in kindergarten. The magnetic quality of the story is the universal power to remember, entertain, inspire, create and know.
foundationwriting.pdfHandwriting
Handwriting
We use NSW Foundation Style writing guide in all NSW Public Schools.
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