Sample Literacy Blocks For The Primary Years Page 5

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Sample of 90-Minute Wave 1 Literacy Block
Year Two
Time
Component
30 minutes
Guided Reading and Comprehension
The teacher and children share book reading according
to students’ skills to model good reading strategies;
expose children to a range of text types
Example lesson content:
• creating a class story map
• identifying characters and their personalities whilst
reading aloud
10 minutes
Phonological Awareness
Should only be small
group activity for those
Example lesson content:
requiring p.a. activities
• segmenting words into phonemes
• complex onset and rime - three letter blends
• creating tongue twisters
20 minutes
Phonics and Word Study
Example lesson content:
• learning more complex spelling patterns
• further instruction of high frequency words
• blending words using more complex taught letter
combinations
15 minutes
Vocabulary
Example lesson content:
• word maps for theme vocabulary words
• putting words into individual dictionaries
• building word trees from base words
10 minutes
Fluency
Example lesson content:
• choral reading
• Readers Theatre
• Repeated reading with partner
5 minutes
Share Time
The class discusses what they have learned during the
literacy block.
Deslea Konza ECU 2011

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