Exciting Literacy Block Additions in 2025!

This year, we've introduced some fantastic new elements to our literacy block, ensuring every class from Prep to Year 6 starts their day with 30 minutes dedicated to word recognition. But what exactly is word recognition? Simply put, it's the ability to use groups of letters to recognize and understand words. While it may sound straightforward, there are many techniques to help us become more efficient readers as we grow.

In our Kinder class, students are developing their phonemic awareness—the ability to hear and play with parts of words and individual sounds. Our Prep to Year 2 classes are using resources from the University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI) to enhance their understanding of phonics, focusing on how letters and combinations of letters represent the 44 sounds of the English language.

For our Year 3-6 students, the journey into the fascinating world of Morphology (the meaning in smaller parts of a word) and Etymology (words origin) has begun. They are learning about the meanings of morphemes such as ‘tract’, ‘ject’, and ‘port’, and discovering the origins of words. Each week, they add more to their knowledge base as they investigate new words.

We look forward to witnessing the growth in all our students as they continue to build their skills in word recognition.

Melissa Cox

Instructional Specialist