Could Literacy Support Groups help your child?
The Literacy Support Program offers support for children experiencing difficulties with literacy tasks who can effectively work in a small group. Children must be able to work well in a small group setting to participate in the program. If your child needs more individual support, they may have better learning opportunities in a one-to-one session with either our private clinic with a speech pathologist or a private tutor.
The Literacy Support Program is for students in Year 1, 2 and 3 who are having difficulty learning to read, spell, write and or/ whose language skills may affect their ability to participate in literacy activities.
The program is run as a 2 hour group session of 4-6 students who work with a specialist teacher and an Education Assistant. This ratio ensures intensive and explicit instruction with children. Children are grouped in ability level groups in order to maximise their learning.
Sounds Write and Talk for Writing are the two evidence based programs that are used in the Literacy Support Program.
The literacy component of our program follows the Sounds Write program, which is a structured, synthetic phonics program that explicitly teaches children the relationship between sounds and the letters that represent them and how to apply this to reading, writing and spelling tasks. Students also have the opportunity to access high quality decodable readers each session.
The extended literacy and language component of the program is based on the Talk for Writing and/or Talk for Reading programs which provides an engaging teaching framework that works on strengthening a child’s oral language to support their written language and extended literacy skills. It provides children with an explicit framework with which to structure their texts and draws upon a strong oral language base to support their writing.
Session days and times
The Literacy Support Program runs during the Western Australian school term, typically for a block of nine to ten weeks (dependent on the school term, public holidays and/or pupil free days).
As the program caters for students in Years 1-3, the sessions run:
Mornings 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
OR
Afternoons (1:30 PM – 3:30 PM)
at TSH Centre in Wembley. We aim to allocate students in a group which best suits their ability and year level, however we do strive to cater to families’ scheduling needs.
Please contact TSH reception or email literacysupportprogram@tsh.org.au to speak with a staff member about enrolling your child in the Literacy Support Program.
Want to learn more?
If you want to learn more about the program and if it is suitable for your child, please reach out to us and a member of our friendly team will be in contact.