LITERACY 2024

Bringing Structured Literacy into High School

Area of focus

Literacy

When

9:30 am - 3:30 pm Thu 28th Nov 2024

Where

The Grange Estate, 4 Commonwealth Lane, Campbell Town, 7210.

Who should attend

  • English Teachers.
  • Secondary Teachers.
  • Literacy Leaders.

Who is speaking

Jessica Colleu Terradas

How Secondary Teachers Can Improve Literacy in Their Classrooms

Overview

Current research has shown that using a Structured Literacy approach is the most effective and efficient way to teach children to read and write, but what does this look like in the secondary classroom? This highly practical session will focus on building teacher knowledge and practice in using a Structured Literacy Approach in Years 7-12

Content:

  • Why Literacy is everyone's’ business?
  • Explicit instruction & the Science of Reading – an overview.
  • Strategies to build reading fluency.
  • Robust vocabulary instruction.
  • The importance of building background knowledge to support reading comprehension.
  • Strategies to unpack a text with students.
  • Combining reading and writing.
  • Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, including screening and intervention.

What you will learn

This professional learning will include content that falls within the following AITSL Standards and/or the National Quality Standard:

AITSL FOCUS AREAS

  • 1.2.
  • 2.5.
  • 6.2

Click link below for a copy of the AITSL Standards:

AITSL STANDARDS



NATIONAL QUALITY STANDARD ELEMENTS:

  • N/a.

Click link below for a copy of the National Quality Standard:

NATIONAL QUALITY STANDARD



Important information

Cancellation:

If you have registered for this event (see Terms and Conditions below) and are subsequently unable to attend, we ask that you advise us of your absence as soon as possible.

For this session, please email any such notice of cancellation to: swoodcock-davis@ist.tas.edu.au

Terms and Conditions:

All participants are required to individually register to attend this session. If you do not register for the event you will not receive a certificate of attendance.

Registration Confirmation:

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