Kindy Term 4 Literacy Focus

Today's blog is a response to a question on the literacy activities and resources to focus on for term 4 kindy. The post contains links to free downloads that will help guide you to develop a suitable framework that will hopefully help make programming your Term 4 activities a whole lot less stressful.

Dear Diana, I am contacting you regarding the focus for Kindy next term. There is some confusion as to what sounds we need to teach. It appears that we focus on the long sounds only but the test covers long and short sounds. Can you please clarify this so we can ensure we are following the program correctly.

The current outline of what to cover term by term can be found in the free download titled The Early Years Pre-literacy to Early Literacy Framework.

Page 1 illustrates the Kindergarten skill progression and Page 2 outlines a sample policy document showing how to achieve this skill progression.

Term 4 Kindergarten will need to develop student's ability to identify and verbalise initial sounds – both continuant (or long sounds) and the stop or short sounds.

The Download was developed in the lead up to the release of the National Curriculum and as a result of the new goals set out by the National Curriculum both Kindy and Pre Primary need to be aiming higher and developing more skills than we did in previous years.

Our Free Literacy Downloads are has an incredible selection of Milestone Fact Sheets, Literacy Development Strategies and Implimentation Guides.