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Research, data and a scientific approach is at the heart of our goal for growth in Literacy for all of our students.  With literacy a top priority at St John the Baptist Catholic School , we’ve recently implemented a new Reading and spelling approach, and are tracking children’s progress and development across the whole school.  It’s exciting to report, we’re seeing early evidence of success from across the school as a result of the implementation of the new Reading approach.

The framework has a strong emphasis on developing student’s phonic knowledge through a systematic, synthetic phonics approach. The engagement of our students in this program has been excellent. We’re quickly seeing the positive effects of the explicit classroom practice.  Not only does this program benefit our early readers, it also supports students with underlying learning difficulties. Helping students who may need to revisit different sounds, or those who need additional practise with blending and segmenting of words. Importantly, this program covers the five areas of reading which include phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.