NSWDoE Literacy & Numeracy NSWDoE Literacy & Numeracy

In this episode we talk about handwriting. Why is it such an important skill to learn? How do we teach it? Listen in to hear our key messaging about handwriting.

For further support and resources visit the NSWDoE Literacy and Numeracy website https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/literacy-and-numeracy
Effective writing professional learning - https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/literacy-and-numeracy/professional-learning/effective-writing-evidence
Handwriting lesson advice guide - https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/literacy-and-numeracy/teaching-and-learning-resources/literacy/lesson-advice-guides

Rosie Farnham, Linda De Marcellis and Shannan Salvestro from the Literacy and Numeracy team talk through the Professional Learning pathways documents that have been developed to support schools’ priorities in literacy and numeracy according to the needs of teachers and students.
Each pathway displays an overview of the professional learning and resources available in a suite of learning and provides a recommended order for engagement. Scenarios provide examples of how you can tailor a pathway to suit individual contexts.

You may benefit from having the pathways documents open while you listen to the discussion. They can be accessed by NSWDoE staff on the literacy and numeracy website -
https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/literacy-and-numeracy/resources-for-schools/pathways

You can join the Literacy and Numeracy Statewide Staffroom to ask questions and stay informed.
Literacy SWS - https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3a42316349d42e47178cba9da92ab992dd%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=26306aea-e8d5-49fe-88fd-4da661f01fd5&tenantId=05a0e69a-418a-47c1-9c25-9387261bf991
Numeracy SWS -https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3a25f15c444946478698aa09a497223ab6%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=1b4d6e82-09f3-4598-ac69-8a47327eedc6&tenantId=05a0e69a-418a-47c1-9c25-9387261bf991
You can join the AP, C&I Yammer community - https://web.yammer.com/main/groups/eyJfdHlwZSI6Ikdyb3VwIiwiaWQiOiI5NDA3MTc1ODg0OCJ9

This podcast discusses assessment of student reading. For our NSW DoE teachers, we chat about what is available and how these assessments support us in identifying the reading behaviours and strategies of our students. We can use that information to make decisions about the next focus areas to target our teaching to meet student need.
For more information on these assessments and how to access them you can visit the assessment section on the Literacy and Numeracy website: https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/literacy-and-numeracy/assessment-resources
or the Learning Resource Hub: https://resources.education.nsw.gov.au/?source=readingandnumeracy&sort=relevance

For further support please email literacy.numeracy@det.nsw.edu.au

Following the recent roll out of decodable texts to primary schools to support school's reading programs, the literacy team got together to discuss the effective use of these books for reading instruction. We talk about what they are, what their purpose is, how to select a text for instruction or independent practice and about the inclusion of other texts in reading instruction. Listen in to our discussion on effective reading instruction incorporating decodable readers.

For further information you could also visit the decodables section on the Literacy and numeracy website: https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/literacy-and-numeracy/teaching-and-learning-resources/literacy/effective-reading-in-the-early-years-of-school/decodable-texts

Kate Blackwell, a classroom teacher at Blackheath Public School in the Blue Mountains shares what she has learnt about the neuroscience of reading and what the implications of that knowledge has meant to her classroom practice when teaching children to read.
Kate references these sources:
Reader come home: The reading brain in a digital world by Maryanne Wolf https://www.maryannewolf.com/reader-come-home-1

Language at the speed of sight by Mark Seidenberg
https://seidenbergreading.net/

Reading in the brain, the science of how we read by Stanilas Daheane https://www.penguin.com.au/books/reading-in-the-brain-9780143118053?utm_expid=.JC69wDioR_Kc4RimyKASfg.0&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Educating the brain - Stanislas Daheane
https://youtu.be/0esnsHI4opA

Literacy & Numeracy website (DoE intranet) https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/literacy-and-numeracy

Dr Danielle Colenbrander chats with us about the role of vocabulary in reading instruction.
Dr Danielle Colenbrander is a researcher and member of the Macquarie University Centre for Reading. Danielle trained as a speech language pathologist at Macquarie University before completing her PhD exploring the role of oral vocabulary in reading comprehension difficulties. She has worked with diverse populations of children in a variety of settings in Australia and the UK. She is interested in relationships between vocabulary knowledge, reading aloud and reading comprehension.

For further reading and professional learning:
Effective Reading: Vocabulary (professional learning for NSWDoE teachers)https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/literacy-and-numeracy/professional-learning

Literacy and numeracy website (NSWDoE intranet)
education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-l…y-and-numeracy1)

Beck, McKeown & Kucan (2013). Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction (2nd edition)

Beck, McKeown & Kucan (2008). Creating Robust Vocabulary: Frequently Asked Questions and Extended Examples,

Parsons & Branagan (2017). Word Aware: Teaching Vocabulary Across the Day, Across the Curriculum.

Duff, Dawna (2019).Has Vocabulary Intervention Had an Effect? A Valid, Reliable, and (Fairly) Quick Outcome Measure for Semantic Knowledge, Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools • Vol. 50 • 506–517