
Students participate in reading and writing lessons in small groups, designed to meet their specific learning needs.

The program aims to reduce the risk of students not achieving expected literacy levels by the end of their first year of schooling. It complements the daily literacy program. It provides rich literacy experiences through systematic and explicit teaching. 元 is a research-based Kindergarten classroom intervention, targeting text reading and writing.

Language, Learning and Literacy 元 Reading Program
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Students become aware of how to reflect on and assess their own and others' learning. They explore the use of digital technologies to construct a variety of multimodal texts. Students write most lower and upper case letters appropriately, using the NSW Foundation Style as appropriate. They know and use letters and sounds of the alphabet to attempt to spell known words. Students begin to apply simple editing techniques to their written work. Students retell events and experiences for known audiences that demonstrate an awareness of the text structure, basic grammar and punctuation needed. They create simple texts and recreate familiar imaginative texts by drawing on personal experience and through performance, drawing and images.

Students engage in writing with an increasing awareness of the nature, purpose and conventions of written language. Students explore and identify some features of texts, including the use of rhyme, letter patterns and sounds in words in written and spoken texts. They read with some fluency and accuracy, drawing support from concepts of print and their developing sound and letter knowledge. Students recognise, discuss and respond to the different kinds and purposes of various written, visual and digital texts from a variety of cultures. They interpret and provide relevant explanations of characters and main events in imaginative texts, and key ideas and visual features in short informative texts, making connections to personal experience. Students develop reading, viewing and comprehension skills and strategies using context, grammar, word usage and phonics to make meaning from short, predictable printed texts on familiar topics.
