Sunday, 2 March 2025

Structured Literacy

3/3/25

Structured Literacy
Literacy Connections

Day 1


Same as last year


The Brain


We need to teach reading.  It’s not natural.  We all learn to read the same way no matter what language.


If you have dyslexia they find it difficult to pick out these sounds.


Neurotypical -see a word 4-14 times

Dyslexia - 200+ times


Need a quiet space, explicit teaching, lots of sleep.  SUCCESS DELIVERS DOPAMINE.


Reading becomes effortless and immediate.




Word Recognition x Language comprehension = Skilled reader 

The Big Five


Structured Literacy instruction is an umbrella term to describe evidence-based programmes and approaches used to teach students how to read.



Explicit Instruction: Anita Archer - perky pace


Why Explicit Instruction?


Discovery learning is only viable after explicit instruction.


We don’t give adequate practice.


Three types of practice

  • Deliberate

  • Spaced Practice (over time)

  • Retrieval


Students need to be actively engaged.


If it hasn’t changed my long term memory we haven’t learned it.


In order for the learning to be in the long term memory we need the three types of practice.


When your brain goes into overload you cannot make a decision.


Our working memory can bottle neck. One thing at a time.

The earlier you catch literacy difficulties, the less their is to fix.


deb - dyslexia evidence based.


Phoneme - smallest unit of sound

  • Phoneme and grapheme relationship (sound and letter proficiency)


Yr 3 and above use David Kilpatric assessment


Phonological awareness is an awareness of the sound structure of spoken words. 

A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a word.

Phonemic awareness is the ability to isolate, identify, blend, segment and manipulate individual phonemes in words.

Phonics instruction focuses on the relationship between written letters and sounds.


To read words we are decoding

To write words we are encoding

Example below ↴

Sound bars - headphones so we can hear what the sound is saying


Emma Nahna - sound foundations




Start with basic code and bring in more complex code over time.



Assessment


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