Literacy

At St John’s, teaching literacy skills is a priority. Our students engage with purposeful listening, reading, viewing, speaking and writing activities everyday. Students learn new vocabulary through listening and reading and apply their knowledge and understanding in their speaking and writing, as well as in their comprehension of both spoken and written texts.

Structuring Literacy Lessons at St John's

• Explicit whole class teaching of reading and writing skills
• Focus group teaching to target individual learning needs
• Weekly targeted spelling program
• Phonics based reading and writing
• Regular and ongoing Assessment of English skills

Learning in Literacy is supported by:

• 6+1 Writing Traits

• Intervention programs including Reading Recovery

• Extension programs 

• Public Speaking opportunities

• Celebrating Literacy and Numeracy Week and Book Week

• Extensive Resource Centre (Library)

• ICT devices and Google Apps For Education

• Reading Eggs/Eggspress - online programs to target specific learning goals