Basic number charts and alphabet letters support foundation literacy and numeracy skills
The science of reading in practice
Just as performance in maths needs improvement, so also in literacy and communication. ‘Literacy is a critical skill if students want to access all other subjects of the curriculum,’ explains Kaylene. The problems in literacy parallel the maths issues in that there is no clarity of national curriculum and PLD for teachers is woefully inadequate. Consequently, we have seen, as with maths, schools adopting programmes for the whole school. These can sometimes be highly successful and a recent ‘Science of Reading’ approach, involving more phonics teaching rather than the previously popular ‘whole language’ approach to teaching
reading has taken off. Whilst this particular approach may not be harmful to children’s learning of literacy, and indeed some would say quite the opposite, there are other programmes out there that might be. Kaylene is quite clear that although some principals may not be willing to give away too much autonomy, it is time for a return to national curriculum leadership, to curriculum experts in the education training space and for curriculum advisors in all subjects to be available to schools. ‘Literacy and numeracy are far too important to our children’s futures to leave it to chance,’ she said.
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