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Monday, 25 May 2026

BSLA - Day 1

BSLA - Overview



Current Literacy Trajectories for those who enter school with lower oral language.
We want students to have accelerated progress!

 
Started as a Science project after the Christchurch earthquakes in 2015, then trialled in Auckland, now being rolled out - arrow image add above

Influence factors on literacy development:


With all these factors, what are we going to do?

Scaffolding for Learning



Immediate corrective feedback - previously exposed to frogs and flag. Teacher wants students to be successful but didn't give the answer. Reminder Prompt, Scaffold Prompt and Example Prompt.


Simple view of Reading


Phonemes - sounds letters make (spelling)

Orthology - letters that make up sounds (what words look like)

Morphemes - eg affixes, add meaning (parts of words that have meaning)

How was/is Cognitive Load Managed with New Entrants - I do, we do, repetition, simple image and font, focus on one sound 

How was/is Cognitive Load Managed with Y7 - Phonemes - sounds tricky sounds 


How was/is Cognitive Load Managed with Y8 - Making predictions, Teacher modelling predictions, talking about how she was finding the answers, rather than testing by answering questions.

Three tiers 
  1. Universal, whole class
  2. Small group - targeted
  3. Individualised







Plans realigned with Refreshed Curriculum - Phase 3




Building Blocks






Noticings: Video 1
Story elements
Reinforced words with images








Video 2 - Reading Comprehension - QAR strategies





POSSE - Teaching talk about thinking and finding answers for questions - Thinking Aloud, Teacher Talk = I do
Then need to move to = You do





PhOM 
Breaking words into segments - d-o-t / cartoon-ist / sym-path-et-ic


Y2 - Reading together

Y4 - Have already read story - point to where find answer, what type of question - right there or think and search

Why do they need to know phoneme words - 

Enhancing Linguistic Knowledge

Teachers can not teach what they don't know. E.g. Phonological Awareness

The broader ability to hear, differentiate and manage sounds of a language. Green box most important - image.

Beginning and End are often the ones we see first through writing.

Segmenting both pull apart and put together

Manipulating - substitute, delete and add e.g. dad - mad - sad


Changing Phoneme word chains = pot - hot - hat: This is a necessary skill to help with reading. But teacher need to call this into practice in reading.

Word Phoneme segmentation: number of phonemes number of letters - image



Orthography
- the spelling systems and the rules that dictate what spelling patterns to use. 




Diphthongs - 

boy, oil, cow, out, saw, cause

To alleviate learning stress, don't need to teach and remember blends as they say their own sounds.         E.g. fl = f-l, cl=c-l.

VC = if, is, it, on, - vowel is usually short

CV = no - vowel is usually long sound

CVC = sees -=s-ee-s, thought = th-ough-t

Ways to represent sounds 

Blends - each letter makes its own sound

Digraphs - 2 letters make one sound


Morphology

The study of the smallest meaningful parts of words (affix - prefixes, suffixes, and root words)

Base words stand alone E.g. runs, playing, pushed

Root words can't stand alone - Greek or Latin origins E.g. erupted, constructed


Explicit Teaching of Vocab

Students need to hear things 35 times (exposures to acquire the full meaning of a word)

Important to understand the way words are put together.

Prefixes: learning what they mean helps students to work out other words 

Elaboration

NE - not predicting - When first teaching a concept or vocab = I do 

Y6 - read story previously - Teacher rereads sentence with the vocabulary word (so word is said correctly) Children: Think Pair Share 

Discuss the word cycle and what words 

Look at suffixes - cycle - cyclist 


Oral Narrative and Reading Comprehension Teaching

Year 4-6 - Rdg Com

Start with I do, then move to You do. Lots of I do in lower levels, especially as you introduce new ideas.
Using UConline

Year 4 - Taumata 10
Year 5 - Taumata 13
Year 6 - Taumata 16

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