Secondary Support Program on Literacy Skills and Personal Stories

This program was designed using the Australian Curriculum Life Skills Outcomes and is designed to cater for the highly personalised needs of students in a Secondary Support Class.

This unit is divided into four parts and is closely linked to the Literacy Progressions. Students will be assessed on their abilities and areas for progress in the skills of Sight Words, Phonological Awareness, Phonics, Reading Accuracy and Fluency. The results from a combination of diagnostic assessments will allow students to be placed on the Literacy Progressions in the three areas of Phonological Awareness, Phonics and Reading. Student achievement and progress will be on display in the classroom via a Bump It Up wall in the area of Reading. This is to encourage students throughout their completion of the MultiLit Reinforced Reading Program. Students will also be completing a highly personalised Sight Words program followed by a Phonemic- based Spelling Program. These three skill-based areas will continue throughout the first semester of the school year. Finally, as a reading and writing component, students will complete a series of reading and writing tasks based on the genre of Personal Narratives. These will be modelled with an emphasis on planning, proof-reading and editing published work.

Students will:

• Complete a series of Literacy assessments which will benchmark their ability and areas for progress
• Participate in a 1:1 Sight Words program with accompanying spelling and reinforcement activities
• Learn vital phonemic spelling rules and strategies as they complete the Sound Wave Phonemic Spelling Program whilst working at their personalised level
• Complete MultiLit’s 1:1 Reinforced Reading Program twice per week and have their progress assessed and charted fortnightly
• Learn the purpose, audience and form used in Personal Narratives
• Appreciate the significance of planning, proof-reading and publishing pieces of written work.

*** This is only the program***