Literacy and Numeracy.
Literacy and numeracy are the foundational skills that our children will require to be flourishing lifelong participants in education, employment and the community.
Dandenong Primary School’s literacy and numeracy instruction comprises a number of evidence-based, high impact teaching strategies
Every lesson, in every classroom features goal setting, explicit teaching, differentiated teaching, collaborative learning, questioning and feedback around progress towards learning goals.
Literacy
The study of English is central to the development of all young students. It contributes to the creation of confident communicators, imaginative thinkers and informed citizens. It is through the study of English that individuals learn to analyse, understand, communicate and interact with others and with the world around them.
At Dandenong Primary School the explicit learning and teaching of literacy takes place in daily, 2-hour blocks. Our learning and teaching instructional model for literacy includes approaches and strategies such as:
Synthetic phonics
Modelled, shared and guided reading and writing
Reader's Notebooks (Fountas & Pinnell)
Reading and writing conferences
Big Write and VCOP (Andrell Education)
While much of the explicit teaching of literacy occurs in the English learning area, it is strengthened, made specific and extended in other learning areas as students engage in a range of learning activities with significant literacy demands.
Numeracy
Mathematics provides students with access to important mathematical ideas, knowledge and skills that they will draw on in their personal and work lives. The curriculum also provides students, as life-long learners, with the basis on which further study and research in mathematics and applications in many other fields are built.The explicit learning and teaching of numeracy takes place in daily, 1-hour blocks.
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