Western Australia Seminars

This seminar explains the implementation of PLDโ€™s structured synthetic phonics programs (SSP) within Year 3, 4, 5 & 6. It outlines PLDโ€™s targeted teaching and the associated tracking and reporting of skill development. The implementation of this evidence-based program aims to maximise literacy levels and skill development.

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Seminar Outline

This full-day seminar provides educators working within the Year 3, 4, 5 & 6 with the knowledge and tools required to explicitly target the range in literacy ability evident within middle and upper primary classes in a systematic fashion. Despite the range in ability within each middle and upper primary class, PLDโ€™s targeted SSP teaching aims to cater for the literacy outcomes of all middle and upper primary students. This seminar provides a scope and sequence and process that is practical, realistic and time-efficient to implement and will cater for advanced, average and delayed students.

The presentation is recommended for all educators working within Year 3, 4, 5 & 6 (WA).

The presentation outlines:

  • How to implement PLDโ€™s structured synthetic phonics (SSP) approach in the middle & upper primary.
  • How three levels of targeted teaching can be delivered to a class.
  • Time-efficient reading and spelling assessments are designed to inform teaching plans so teachers can be more focused in their instruction.
  • The adoption of the PLDโ€™s tracking sheets in order to establish a plan for the upcoming term.
  • The allocation of a proportion of the literacy block to the explicit instruction of encoding (i.e. spelling) and decoding (i.e. reading).
  • The instruction of vocabulary, related to the ever-increasing phonic-based words.
  • The presentation of phonic dictation passages as a facilitator of phonic concepts into extended written work.
  • For the stronger students, a phonic-based approach focused upon word meanings and opportunities to transfer concepts into writing.
  • The teaching of decoding, fluency and the importance of decodable reading material (for the students who still require this instruction).
  • Oral language instruction (to supplement SSP) which facilitates the ability to speak in complex, grammatically correct sentences.
  • Narrative retelling and generation to increase comprehension and written expression ability.
Year 3, 4, 5 & 6 – Western Australia Seminar Dates

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TERM 1 – 2025

24 January – Perth

(School Holidays)

28 February – Perth

24 April – Perth
(School Holidays)

TERM 2 – 2025

23 May – Perth

18 July – Perth
(School Holidays)

TERM 4 – 2025

7 November – Perth

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