English

The English program at Lumen Christi runs as a two hour uninterrupted block of learning throughout the school. It is divided into a reading focus and a writing focus with oral language weaving in and out of each focus. From Foundation through to Gr.6 the children will be exposed to a wide variety of literacy experiences that will build their oral language, reading and writing skills. The key to success in Literacy is understanding what the children need to know and providing them with a sequential and differentiated curriculum that is carefully monitored and scaffolded to develop and extend their knowledge.

At Lumen Christi our beliefs and understandings in teaching English are reinforced by the strategies used in DAILY 5 and CAFE for reading and writing and OLSEL, (Oral Language) for developing the children’s oral language. These beliefs and understandings are shared from Foundation through to Gr.6 with a developmental and sequential approach.

The Australian Curriculum is the key foundational framework used to drive the content, skills and assessment used in English. For children needing extra assistance in English they can be accelerated with specialist programs such as Reading Recovery (Gr.1) and Early Reading
Intervention Knowledge (ERIK Gr.2 through to Gr.4). Both programs being researched based Intervention Programs.