Quality Literacy Teaching Literacy is everyone’s business

1. Quality Literacy TeachingLiteracy is everyone’s business www.decs.sa.au/literacy

2. Quality Literacy Teaching You don't change performance without changing the instructional core.Elmore 2004 • Quality literacy teaching is the responsibility of all educators • Quality literacy teachers works to ensure that learners have the language and literacy skills needed for success across the curriculum and beyond. DECS Literacy SecretariatLiteracy is everyone’s business

3. Teacher Effectiveness Research consistently shows that the greatest effect on learner achievement is the quality of teaching. Teachers can and do make a difference on a daily basis to the achievement of learners, regardless of the context and constraints. DECS Literacy SecretariatLiteracy is everyone’s business

4. What do quality teachers do? Quality literacy teachers works to provide: • Differentiated, explicit and effective teaching targeted to the needs of learners • Planned and sequential development of literacy skills and understandings • Consistent and high quality enactment of whole site literacy agreements across all areas of the curriculum and levels of schooling DECS Literacy SecretariatLiteracy is everyone’s business

5. Explicit and balanced • Literacy research indicates that integrated literacy instruction explicitly taught across all levels of schooling and curriculum areas leads to improved literacy outcomes • A minimum time allocation of 300 minutes each week of explicit literacy instruction has been established for R-7 students. This allocation will be in place by 2012 for students in years 4 – 7 and by 2013 for students in R – year 3. DECS Literacy SecretariatLiteracy is everyone’s business

6. Explicit Teaching Explicit teaching “is instruction that is concrete and visible. The teacher explains new concepts and strategies in clear and concise language. Explicit instruction involves modeling and explaining concepts and skills using many examples. Teachers provide a high level of support as students practice and apply newly learned concepts.” Leading for Reading Success: An Introductory Guide for Reading First Coaches, 2005 DECS Literacy SecretariatLiteracy is everyone’s business

7. National Teacher Quality Agenda Professional knowledge: • Know their learners and how they learn • Know the literacy content and how to teach it Professional practice: • Plan for and implement effective literacy teaching and learning • Create and maintain safe and supportive learning environments • Assess, provide feedback and report on literacy learning Professional engagement: • Engage in professional learning and reflection. • Contribute to the site and professional community. DECS Literacy SecretariatLiteracy is everyone’s business

8. and practice DECS Literacy SecretariatLiteracy is everyone’s business

9. The Strategic Teaching Model -Creating a Culture of Literacy: A Guide for Middle and High School Principals, (2005). National Association of Secondary Principals. DECS Literacy SecretariatLiteracy is everyone’s business

10. Fluency Automatic word recognition Prosody Chunking/phrasing Sight words Knowledge of orthography Context (syntactic and semantic) cues Affective Motivation Attention Interests PhonologicalAwareness Rhyming Syllables Blending Segmenting Phoneme manipulation Phonics Decoding Synthetic Analytic Word families Comprehension Concepts about print Purpose for reading Strategy knowledge Text structure Use of strategies Comprehension monitoring Cognitive correlates Auditory processing Rapid automatised naming Working memory Long term memory Context Teacher Instructional materials Readability Appeal Home literacy practices Peers School culture/climate Wider community Vocabulary Listening vocabulary Speaking vocabulary Background knowledge Word structures Inclusive Model of Reading- Bell & McCallum, 2007, Handbook of Reading Assessment Note: Shaded boxes represent the areas of reading identified by the US National Reading Panel DECS Literacy SecretariatLiteracy is everyone’s business