Boost Program (Reading Intervention)

For those students in the junior school who need an extra boost, we use Little Learners Love Literacy® – an evidence based, structured and explicit program with engaging multisensory activities. It is carefully sequenced in seven stages to teach children the 44 sounds of the English language and the principles of the alphabetic code (that each speech sound can be represented by different groups of letters, such as the sound /ī/ as in I, sky, pie, ice, cycle, and that a letter (or group of letters) can represent different sounds, such as the letter ‘y’ in yes, gym, funny, sky.

We use decodable (books which require children to read words by sounding out, using the letters and sounds that they have been taught). Our books are decodable books. These have been carefully written to match the Little Learners Love Literacy® sequence. Children experience success from the start by sounding out and blending the words in the books using the sounds and letters they’ve learnt so far.

Essentially this is a total literacy program that integrates spelling, reading and writing.

Selected students work in small groups (up to 5 students) in a withdrawal room.  Lessons are 50 minutes long and are usually taught 3 times a week.