Literacy+-+Special+Programmes

** __ Reading Recovery __ ** Reading Recovery is an effective early literacy intervention designed to significantly reduce the number of children with literacy difficulties. Reading Recovery provides daily one to one teaching with a specially trained teacher for children making the slowest progress in literacy learning after a year at school. It is supplementary to classroom instruction. The students are selected through the standardised assessment Six Year Diagnostic Survey, which is administered as close to their 6th birthday. At Forrest Hill School four children are taught daily in a one to one situation with a specially trained teacher for 30 minutes every day for a period of about 12-20 weeks, depending on how long is needed. ** __ Abece Darian __ ** The Aabecedarian Programme is designed to address the learning needs of students, specifically in phonemic awareness. The programme runs for 4 consecutive days each week developing the skills and strategies needed to hear specific sounds that link to symbols and text. This is an important stage of the learning to read process. The programme at Forrest Hill has 2 levels; A and B. The programme includes a strong focus on written, (spelling) reading and oral skills, as well as understanding and the manipulation of sounds. The programme is run by a teacher aide as a withdrawal programme. Follow up support in classrooms is given to students in the weeks following their discontinuation from the programme. ** __ Resource Teacher of Literacy __ ** Children who are identified as being considerably at risk in reading, after intervention programmes have been in place at school, may be referred to the North Shore Resource Teachers of Literacy. ** __ Buddy Reading __ ** Junior and senior classes pair up for buddy reading opportunities. The purposes of buddy reading is to create a joy of reading, confidence in reading and provide a peer tutoring opportunity. ** __ The School Library __ ** The library is an integral part of the school’s teaching and learning programme. Each class will have a timetabled teaching lesson during which students should be taught how to use the library relating to reading for leisure and pleasure, and reading to find and use information. It is an opportunity for students to put their study skills into practice in a meaningful contextual environment. Students will be encouraged to use the library at lunch times. Year 6 students will be trained as librarians. There will be a teacher in charge of the library a well as a teacher aide librarian who will work in the library in the mornings.
 * Special Programmes at Forrest Hill School  **