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programming and strategies handbook

Assisting Year 3 and

Year 5 students who need additional support in literacy

Follow-up to Basic Skills Test

Programming and strategies handbook

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This is a product of the NSW Department of Education and Training focusing on literacy improvement strategies for the lowest achieving primary students. State Literacy Plan

Contents

Programming and strategies handbook

Purpose of this handbook

4

Section 1

Students with high support needs in literacy

5

Section 2

Skills and understandings assessed by the BST:

strategies to teach them

10

Program planning

12

Section 3

Programming in the teaching and learning cycle

14

Helping students who have difficulty just

reading the words on the page

20

Catering for diverse needs in your classroom

23

Section 4 Strategies for students with high support needs in literacy

(a) Reading strategies

Analysing reading: Record of reading

28

Developing accuracy using Pause, Prompt, Praise

36

Modelled reading

38

Guided reading

40

Independent reading

44

Developing fluency

48

Paired reading strategies: Neurological Impress Method (NIM)

53

Paired reading strategies: Silent guided reading

55

Taped reading

56

Developing sight vocabulary: Match-to-sample

58

Developing sight vocabulary: Games for word recognition

59

Developing sight vocabulary: More word recognition

61

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Monitoring sight words

63

Survival words and phrases: Automatic recognition with meaning

65

Phonological processing strategies: Phonemic awareness

69

Manipulating letters: Using letter tiles to demonstrate the way

in which sounds can be exchanged to make a word

72

Phonological processing: Knowledge of letter sound relationships

73

Activities to support the teaching of letter-sound correspondences

76

Sound picture cue cards

81

Teaching the letter sound correspondences in context

using picture cue cards

84

Using proformas to develop activity sheets

85

(b) Spelling strategies

Teaching spelling: A systematic approach

89

Spelling : Irregular words (using visual knowledge)

91

Spelling: Homonyms

96

Spelling: Activities supporting phonological knowledge

98

Letter tiles: Supporting phonological and graphological knowledge 100

Spelling: Using morphemic knowledge

112

Spelling: Using etymology

115

Reference list of spelling generalisations

117

Spelling: Reference ? Scope and sequence of phonological

and graphological skills (K-6 English Syllabus)

118

(c) Vocabulary strategies

Teaching vocabulary: Some principles

119

Word meaning checklist

120

Must, should, could

122

Concept of definition

123

Vocabulary practice: Using barrier games

125

Matching

126

Vocabulary categorisation

128

Vocabulary clines

129

(d) General reading strategies

Choosing appropriate text: Student accuracy

130

Think-aloud reading

132

Cooperative learning

133

State Literacy Plan

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