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Literacy

Gordon Primary School Curriculum

At Gordon Primary School, we value and implement high-level, evidence-based instructional practices to ensure all students have the opportunity to learn to their full potential and be successful in literacy. 

We deliver a structured literacy approach that focuses on the most important elements to build literacy skills; oral language, phonemic awareness, synthetic phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Our staff are trained in ‘Get Reading Right’; which we use to deliver our synthetic phonics program in our Prep to Grade 2 classrooms. Our focus is on ensuring skills are taught in an explicit, systematic and cumulative manner. 

Students initially read decodable texts, with classroom teachers providing scaffolding to gradually transition them to more complex and rich texts. As students develop proficiency, they are able to read and comprehend more complex texts independently.

Our students also complete Spelling Mastery daily to develop their skills moving from letter/sound knowledge to morphemic understanding.

Our writing links with reading to develop a cohesive literacy structure. Students learn sentence structure and genre styles and they create, edit, examine, analyse and respond to written text using a sequence of learning that builds upon their knowledge to develop creative and engaged writers.