Our expert tutors teach students a range of strategies to assist them as they begin to read.
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Literacy is reading, writing, speaking and listening. Young students are developing foundational skills, knowledge and understandings in literacy that will support all of their future learning. The early years are an extremely important time in the life of a student.
As young students develop their literacy skills they begin to understand that ‘black squiggles*’ on a page represent sounds, and groups of ‘black squiggles’ represent words and groups of ‘black squiggles’ organised in straight lines across a page represent sentences and convey meaning.
Optimise Learning’s Beginning Literacy workshop series is designed to give young students an optimal start as they begin to develop their understandings and attitudes towards reading and writing. Each workshop program in our ‘Beginning Literacy’ series has been developed by a specialised early childhood consultant.
Our Beginning Reading workshop program is designed for young students who are starting school next year and for students who are currently completing their first year of school. Reading is the process of constructing meaning from print and from other symbols.
During our Beginning Reading workshop program students will be introduced to the concepts of letter, word, sentence, picture, one-to-one correspondence and the return sweep. Students will practise identifying letters, words, sentences and pictures, they will discover how to blend sounds to form words and they will practise ‘reading’ short repetitive texts.
To maximise their child’s participation and learning, we recommend that parents participate in our Beginning Reading workshop program with their child. By joining in with their child, parents will learn strategies to support their child’s reading development.
To consolidate and extend their understanding of early reading concepts, students are provided with booklets that include exercises for them to complete in between workshops.
Each 8 page booklet in this series of 12, has been specifically designed to advance the reading skills of young students. Each booklet contains a variety of activities to develop a student’s understanding of early print concepts, their ability to decode CVC words and their ability to spell and write some sight words. Students will practise reading and writing short sentences. By completing our early reading tasks students are developing their ability to read predictable texts in correlation with *Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards.
*Achievement Standards describe the expected knowledge, understanding and skills of students at each year level. You can read more about Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards HERE.
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