Implementing SSP in Primary Schools Using PLD (Preparatory to Year 6)

The presentation outlines:

• The seminar begins by outlining the explicit pre-literacy skill teaching that is recommended early in the Foundation (Prep) school year. The presentation of these preventative programs aims to get as many young learners off to a positive start to their literacy acquisition.
• The scenario in which a proportion of students can enter Year 1 and 2 at a pre-literacy level is also explored along with the recommendations for programs, explicit teaching, programs and skill development tracking assessments.
• The seminars explores how to assign and track the development of early decoding and fluency. These measures inform the students who require decodable reading books.
• PLD’s Stages 1-6 are explained, along with the associated assessments for the junior, middle and upper primary.
• PLD advocates for three targeted teaching groups on the basis of placement tests. This is explained using sample class testing results.
• 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.