Early Primary Program
Length
- Up to 60 mins, or
- Up to 90 mins: 45 mins Reading Club, 15 mins morning tea, then 30 mins Numbers Club.
- In-person and online lessons available.
Cost
- $40.00+GST per class (60 mins), or
- $50.00+GST per class (90 mins)
- plus a one-off cost for non-complimentary resources ($74.95).
Objectives
- Reflect, revise and assess letter sounds found in Stages 1 through to 4.
- Move onto consonant clusters and blends, vowel combinations and blends and into more subtle spelling principles (LLLL Stages 4+, 5, 6 and 7).
- Picking out and manipulating sounds in words.
- Blending and segmenting sounds in words, focusing on the initial, middle and final sounds.
- Develop understanding of letter combinations.
- Linking letter sounds with letters of the alphabet and connecting this information with writing the letter.
- Reading level-appropriate decodable text readers.
- Building children’s knowledge of Heart Words.
Structure
- Warm-up.
- Circle Time Show & Tell which promotes speaking and listening skills.
- Introducing the new letter/s or letter combinations of the unit and focusing on letter sound games and activities.
- Explicit teaching, application and practise of letter combination focus.
- Music and movement, promoting and interacting with the introduced letter sound in a different context.
- Art & Craft, promoting and interacting with the introduced letter sound.
- Handwriting.
- Let’s Spell: teaching segmenting and sequencing of sounds and matching words.
- Let’s Write: providing writing opportunities at the word, phrase and sentence level.
- Phonemic fun activities.
- Chitter Chatter Chant & Speech Sounds.
- Storytime.
- Goodbye Rhyme.
Resources
All Reading Club students receive a complimentary:
- Reading Club bag to bring to class every week.
- workbook in which to keep all your Reading Club work.
- access to the LLLL decodable readers for weekly borrowing.
- copy of laminated Heart Words to practise at home.
- Reading Club white board and whiteboard marker.
Please Note: All early primary students are required to purchase the book, Milo’s Birthday Surprise picture story book ($29.95), Milo’s Alphabet Games Flashcards ($29.00) and if not already purchased in the preceding year, My Word Detective Book ($6.00) (2020 prices).