The Pre-Prep literacy class is a multi-sensory phonemic awareness and phonics based program.  Students will come together in small groups to learn from Milo and his friends to recognise the sounds of the alphabet, phonemic awareness skills and links between reading, writing and spelling.  The Little Learners Love Literacy Program is an evidence-based program developed from research with explicit activities to encourage children’s interest while teaching phonemic awareness and phonic skills to learn to read, write and spell.  Your child will also develop social skills, co operation, taking turns, listening and sharing whilst building confidence in themselves.

Lesson structure:

• Show and share – the children bring items from home beginning with the initial sound of the letter learnt in the previous session.

• Reading a page from ‘Milo’s Surprise book’, meeting an animal friend and learning the letter and sound.

• Doing rainbow tracing of our upper and lower case letter of the day.

• Singing our dynamic Letter/sound chant and doing ‘Speed sounds’

• Learning to blend words together using our letters and sounds

• Learning our high frequency words used in our readers which we call  ‘Heart words’.  These words just have to be learnt rather than sounded out.

• Games

   In preparation for getting ready to start school your child will be taught :

• Phonemic Awareness

• Sounds-letter links A-Z

• Word blending /segmenting

• Sentences

• Heart words- High Frequency words

• Reading our Little Learner take home readers

• Upper and lower case letter tracing and writing in Victorian Cursive script

•  Writing their names.

• Oral Language / Vocabulary Development

• Craft/Music/Games and Fun

• Pencil Grip

• Writing posture

• Learning the order of our alphabet.

• Build independence and confidence.