Literacy – it’s everyone’s business!

Purpose of this session: - Celebrate Literacy Development Share EQ’s expectations for Literacy Share Varsity’s journey developing a

Whole School Literacy Policy one school; one vision

Set direction for 2010 refining & aligning with QCARF and preparing for Australian Curriculum (ACARA)

So to start . . .

The world at their feet: the epitome of our success!

2009 Seniors 2002 Junior School students

So . . . Their education has been influenced by many

We all play a part in providing the opportunities for all students to reach their potential

Literacy – it’s everyone’s business!

Key component of the AOPIntegral to success in - NAPLAN QCATS QCS Real Life!

Literacy – it’s everyone’s business!

Effective reading pedagogy is the responsibility of

every teacher across all key learning areas

and year levels.Literate Futures: Reading 2002

So . . . EQ has mandated the 5 Day Literacy PD

Program with – 2008 -09: All P-Yr 3 and Learning

Support teachers 2009: All Yr 4-7, P-3 catch-ups and

Specialist teachers 2010: All Yr 8 & 9 teachers

With . . . All EQ schools to develop and deliver

Whole School Literacy Plans 2008 – 09: Varsity College WSLP

developed and Genre Overviews were enacted and reviewed

2009 Term 4: Literacy Committee reviewed these recommendations and developed the 2010 Text Type Overviews

So, Links from Text Types (Genres) to VIPs /

NAPLAN etc are clearer Progression from more everyday texts to

more formal texts Sequence of development from P-9

linking to needs of Senior

BUT – how do we know what’s come before and what will come after??

The Literacy Committee has developed a Teaching Scope and Sequence for Narrative–

With input from teachers from Prep, Junior and Middle Schools

With a Draft form ready to enact in 2010

Year 3 Sample – Hat Bravery

Audience /6 4

Text structure /4 3

Ideas /5 3

Character and/or setting /4 3

Vocabulary /5 3

Cohesion /4 3

Paragraphing /2 1

Sentence structure /6 4

Punctuation /5 3

Spelling /6 4

Year 5 Sample – The BoxAudience /6 5

Text structure /4 4

Ideas /5 4

Character and/or setting /4 4

Vocabulary /5 5

Cohesion /4 4

Paragraphing /2 2

Sentence structure /6 5

Punctuation /5 4

Spelling /6 5

Year 7 Sample – Dinner Time

Audience /6 6

Text structure /4 4

Ideas /5 5

Character and/or setting /4 4

Vocabulary /5 4

Cohesion /4 4

Paragraphing /2 2

Sentence structure /6 5

Punctuation /5 4

Spelling /6 6

Year 9 - Escape from the Box

Audience /6 6

Text structure /4 4

Ideas /5 5

Character and/or setting /4 4

Vocabulary /5 5

Cohesion /4 4

Paragraphing /2 2

Sentence structure /6 6

Punctuation /5 5

Spelling /6 6

Year 11 – Regal CourageAudience A

Text structure A -

Ideas A -

Character and/or setting A

Vocabulary A

Cohesion A

Paragraphing A

Sentence structure A

Punctuation A

Spelling A

How is this document useful to us?

We now know what students will have been taught before coming to our year level

We know what we need to teach them in our year level - and

We know what they will be taught in future year levels

How is this useful to us? Saving time and energy for teaching

what’s new and relevant rather than what the students already know

Giving students a sense of moving forward with their learning, not repeating previous lessons – and not leaving something out along the way!

And where are these saved?

G:\Curriculum\TeacherCommon\Literacy Committee\ 2010 Literacy Support Docs\

P-9 TEXT TYPE O’VIEWS \ (look for your year level)

Narrative\2010 VC Narrative Scope & Sequence P-9.doc (NAPLAN samples and commentary also)

The focus for 2010 - Year levels to trial the new Text Type

(Genre) Overviews feedback to the College Literacy Committee: - Prep – Liz; Jnr – Mark ; Middle – Jill; Snr - Megan

College Literacy Committee to continue to develop scope and sequence overviews for other text types – e.g. Exposition / Persuasive texts; Poetry; Reports; Procedures

To finish, something to ponder

http://www.taylormali.com/teachers/The_Mission.php