Literacy
Students engage daily in a two-hour literacy block covering five connected components:
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- Retrieval Practice
- Word Work
- Fluency
- Sentence-Level Work
- Language and Literature
Using a gradual release of responsibility, teachers lead instruction and provide scaffolded practise to help students become confident, independent readers and writers.
Each component focuses on essential skills:
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- Retrieval Practice uses spaced review to embed learning in long-term memory;
- Word Work incorporates Sounds-Write and Morphology to support reading and spelling mastery;
- Fluency emphasises reading with accuracy, pace, and expression;
- Sentence-Level lessons use The Writing Revolution method to build writing skills in manageable steps;
- Language and Literature combines text-based units and deep dives to integrate reading, writing, speaking and listening while exploring genres and curriculum content.
What Our Students Say
Lexie, PrepM 2025
“Literacy is fun because I like doing the sentences.”
Paige, 3/4F 2025
“In Literacy, I love The Writing Revolution because I get to write fun sentences.”
Miranda, 5/6C 2025
“Morphology is my favourite part of Literacy because we learn prefixes, suffixes and bases which gives us a bigger vocabulary to write stories.”
Jade, 5/6G 2025
“My favourite part of Literacy is fluency because it allows me to be able to speak clearly and at a good pace when reading a book, writing piece or my Personal Learning Project aloud.”
Kara, 1GH 2025
“I love to come up the front and build words in Sounds Write. It is interesting to learn about new sounds.”
