School Literacy Improvement Program

Program One Parent Partnerships

Clear Pathways for Kid’s Learning: Reading and Writing

Training:

• Teacher Training – X hours
• Teacher Aide Training – X hours
• Parent Training Program – X hours

Reading    Writing

Testimonials

Benefits:

• Students
  • Learning made easy and fun
  • Daily 1:1 reading practice with trained reading mentor (parent)
  • Orchestrated reading and writing strategies
  • Fluent reading and writing of high frequency words and text
  • Consistent strategy development at home and school
  • Accelerated learning through demonstrated researched practices

• Teacher
  • Understanding of parent proficiency in assisting student learning
  • Parent support service i.e. support a reader 
  • Reading and writing strategy development and consolidation
  • Improved substantive partnership parent/teacher relationships

• Teacher Aide
  • Development of effective and current reading and writing strategies
  • Consistent delivery or reading and writing strategies by all participants
  • Improved joint understandings of reading and writing teacher/teacher aide
  • Competent and effective delivery of 1:1 or small group literacy instruction

• Parents
  • Joint understandings of expectations and delivery of reading and writing strategies between home and school.
  • Confidence in parent ability to effectively support their children’s learning
  • Encouraging student participation and risk taking
  • Long term relationship building with student and parent aligned with school expectations in reading and writing.
  • Excitement about the accelerated learning of their children in reading and writing
  • Ability to participate effectively in support a reader programs
  • Available as tele-seminar in 2008.

Program Costings

Program Two Mentor a Reader Program
 

Clear Learning Mentor a Reader Program

• Parents (Mentor a reader)/Peers (Mentor a buddy) – X hours
•Teacher Aide (Rich Book Introduction program)– X hours

Testimonials

Training

• Extra 1hour training for those delivering the program

(NB. Teacher Aide training in Running Records available on request approx 2hrs training)

Benefits

• Consistent and supported reading and writing strategy delivery
• Learning research based information in a fun and easy manner
• Specific guidelines and steps to delivery of the program
• Modeled delivery of program components
• Constructive and supported guidance by consultant
• Graphed statistical data of student improvements (Teacher Aides)
• Networking with parents and teacher for improved outcomes and skill development
• Networking of parent to parent via observations of other parents working
• 1:1 mentored reading program
• Rich book introduction procedures and supported mentored reading
• Peer support development with buddy reader program
• Individual instruction by a trained reading mentor

Program Costings

Additional Programs
 

Oral Literacy Program "Hidden Language of Stories"
By Alex Culley

Training

• Teachers
• Teachers Aides
• Overview approx 2hrs

(External Training available via 5energies www.5energies.com.au see Products for details)
 

Benefits

• Oral literacy program which can be used to develop understandings of story construction and development
• Written and tested by experienced Speech Pathologist in NT Education pilot scheme.
• Develops children’s understanding of characters, actions, structure, connectors, speaking, sequencing, problems and solutions, description of location, appearance and emotions and responses
• Simple fun activities combined with resources kit includes video, photos, activity book
• Whole class or small group intervention groups
   

Brain Gym (Paul Dennison),
Primitive and Postural Reflexes Program (Brendan O'Hara)
Fingergym (Gayle Brooke, Amy Wagenfield, Cathy Thompson)  www.fingergym.info

• Teacher Training
• Teacher Aide Training
• Parent Training Program

Training

Set-up and consolidation 2 hours (Fingergym kit developed by school)
Training of staff would take approximately 6weeks x 1hr per week.
Training Programs available externally  www.movementandlearning.com.au/  www.braingym.org or facilitated by Evelyn Wakeford (see Products)

 

Benefits
 

• Improved and joint understandings of the importance of learning and the brain integration
• Observation and identification of gross motor and brain integration difficulties for further intervention
• Whole school sensory-motor program with simple fun activities
• Researched programs shown to be effective in improving children’s learning abilities
• Fine motor development to support tracking, finger strength for reading/writing 

Consultation Costings

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Our clients say...

"The reading strategies, it is good having guidelines to follow that correspond with what they are learning at school"

Louise Buiatti

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smoke screen of impossibility.
CHARLES F. KETTERING