Accelerated Literacy
In conjunction with the National Literacy and Numeracy Partnership, Park Hill also implements Accelerated Literacy. Accelerated Literacy has been recognised as a beneficial way of teaching literacy to Indigenous students. As I’m sure you are aware Amy, Park Hill has a large population of Indigenous students and it is important that you adjust your teaching strategies
to cater for the specific needs of these students.
Accelerated Literacy is a component of the National Literacy and Numeracy Partnership program; it is supported by the State Government and National Government as well as the Department of Education and Communities. It does not simply teach spelling, grammar and vocabulary, it awakens a sense of the 'what', the 'how', the 'when', the 'where', and ultimately the 'why', of language choices in a text.
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Designed to accelerate
the literacy levels of marginalised students |
Publications
The National Accelerated Literacy Program has released numerous publications to guide teachers in the teaching of this program. They are very easy to read and will give you a great understanding of the reasons why this program was created, what the aim of the program is and how to teach this program. I hope you find these helpful Amy!
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Success Story!
Below is a link to the story of Gillen Primary Public School who started using Accelerated Literacy in 2001 and has experienced improvement after improvement from all students including Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. It is only one of the many success stories to come from the implementation of Accelerated Literacy!
NALP
The National Accelerated Literacy Program website is a vital resource for you Amy! It has everything you could possibly want to know about Accelerated Literacy. We recommend spending the time to familiarise yourself with the website and explore the multiple free resources they provide. Remember Accelerated Literacy is about changing the way, we as teachers think about teaching literacy and opening the kids mind to how it all works!
'Through a whole book (in early childhood classes) or a passage from one (for older year levels), fluent reading and discussion of a familiar text becomes a powerful resource for learning how the ‘ground rules’ of English literacy work in a classroom context.'
(NALP 2012)
(NALP 2012)