[Insert School Name ] LITERACY PLAN: Years 2007 - 2009

SCHOOL PURPOSE VISION STATEMENT EXIT OUTCOMES

As in School Strategic Plan How the SLP links to the school purpose For Individual School Community.
WHY we do literacy things WHAT we do HOW we KNOW we’ve done literacy things
“Our students will exit Year 7 with ………….

School Context & Community Profile Standards and Targets

Since 1938 this school has served a community of diverse students who reflect a rich
blend of socio-economic, cultural and social backgrounds. The following factors impact
upon the Literacy Program of our school …
 The school is served by an experienced, dedicated and caring staff.
 The majority of students are keen, cooperative and supported by caring families.
20% (ave) of students are transient each year. This mobility adversely affects our
school’s systemic testing outcomes. A significant percentage of students suffer
socio-economic disadvantage.
 Approx 30% of students are of Aboriginal, Torres Strait or South Sea Islander descent.
 Approx 30% of students have been identified as requiring and receiving additional
educational support in an effort to overcome learning disabilities or difficulties.
 The school is currently revising its curriculum framework. Students are engaging in
Higher Order Thinking Strategies (via the Challenging Our Children Program) &
Integrated Curriculum Units are being developed to meet the needs of the local
community and the requirements of new outcomes based syllabus.
Shared Vision
Our students live in a complex society and so it is necessary but no longer sufficient to
only learn basic reading and writing skills. Being literate means being able to
comprehend and compose so as to effectively negotiate the expectations encountered in
a wide variety of social purposes, using and engaging in a variety of communication
technologies.
 The teaching of Literacy is the responsibility of all teachers, across all curriculum areas.
Because students benefit from a whole school approach to literacy learning, certain
identified strategies need to be presented more frequently, more consistently and in
greater depth. Our school Literacy programs & practices must contribute to developing
our student’s ability to achieve our school’s curriculum goal … “Thinking, Learning &
Acting responsibly”.
Classroom Organisation & Pedagogy
 Scaffolding for Success (comprehending Program & Composing Program)
 Essential Elements of a Reading / Writing Program
 KWL (comprehending & composing)
 4 Resources Model (comprehending)
 4 Power Genre (composing)
 Activities to consider at each stage of the Reading / Writing Process
 Comprehension Counts
 WOW!
 80% of students are rated satisfactory (or better) in the areas of Reading & Writing
(includes Spelling) on their Semester 2 Student report Cards.
 80% of student’s Reading & Writing (includes Spelling) achievements as measured by
Internal Monitoring processes are at least ‘age appropriate’ or ‘average’ or
‘satisfactory’.
 75% of student’s Reading & Writing (includes Spelling) achievements as measured by
systemic testing are in the top 75% of results …. ie achieving at or above state
‘average’ expectations.
 Improve the Yr 5 Reading mean as measured by the Yr 5 Statewide test to 620.
 Percentage of students not requiring additional support for Yr 2 Diagnostic Net by 70%
in Reading, 75% in Writing (includes Spelling) & 80% in Number.
85% of parents indicate that they are ‘satisfied’ (or better) that the school program is
developing students Literacy skills (Parent Opinion Survey item S107 – was 81.8% in
2002)
Leadership, coordination & Professional Learning
 Promotion of Reading/Writing links via integration of Thinking Strategies (eg Top Level
Structure), Information & Communication Technology and literacy requirements of
Integrated (cross) Curriculum Programs.
 Ongoing review of Oral Language Programs (Speaking .. involving consultant SLP and
Listening.
 Discussion, sharing and promotion of successful teaching & learning strategies that
promote literacy outcomes and are consistent across the school.
 Provision of Parent Information Sessions that provide parents with an opportunity to
learn about the school’s Literacy goals, programs & teaching/learning practices.
Continuation of access to professional development opportunities and participation in
Literacy focus activities initiated in other schools and by the Literacy Development
Centre.
Intervention & Special Needs Support
 Teachers can not assume that students have a rich Standard Australian English literacy
background upon commencement of schooling. Early identification of literacy needs
and resultant oral language development, pre-reading, pre-writing programs are very
important for some students. Some students begin Yr 1 without attending Pre-school.
 Some students have a rich indigenous home background in which English is a second
language.
A significant percentage of students come from home backgrounds that provided
limited literacy development support (eg few books, newspapers and/or dictionaries;
limited exposure to or modelling of literacy practices; parents unable/unwilling to read
 to or listen to children read to them etc).
Targeted funds employs teacher aides to enhance support provided to students with high
level literacy learning needs.
Assessment & Monitoring Strategic Community Partnerships
 Implementation of year level, cross year level and cross school moderation activities In an effort to achieve Literacy goals we will endeavour to maintain partnerships with …
that promote professional discussion and sharing of successful strategies, expectations
and assessment practices in the areas of reading, comprehension and writing (using
 XXXX Literacy Development Centre
100 point scale Writing Analysis).  ZZZZ Education Consortium Schools … fellow primary schools and XXXX & ZZZZ
 Best practice data recording (class, systemic and internal monitoring outcomes) and Partner High Schools.
communication systems that provide teachers with a useful summary of their student’s
literacy abilities at the commencement of each new year.
Link to the School Strategic Plan through the Literacy Implementation Plan and the school’s Professional Development Plan
(If using new Regional Trial SSP Template, these links are made explicit in the one document.)