How to Surpass the Reading and Writing Achievement Standards in the National Curriculum

The National Curriculum is out, and it is evident that phonics is going to be the core of your language program for the early years. Get Reading Right’s synthetic phonics program will get your school to the National Curriculum standards and beyond - just like it did for Ironbark Ridge Public School!

Kindy/Prep National Curriculum Standards:

Reading:

Children will “name sound–letter matches for most consonants and short vowels, recognise high frequency sight words and work out short regular words using context, grammatical and phonic knowledge”.

Spelling:

Children will “accurately spell a growing number of irregular words and demonstrate an increasing ability to spell common and unknown words using sound–letter knowledge”

Part One of the Get Reading Right program, for kindy/prep, gets you to the standard by teaching:

all the consonants and short vowels sound-letter matches (the first 30 sounds of the 44 sounds required in phonics teaching)

the first 36 essential irregular, high frequency sight words

reading short regular words using phonics knowledge – in the context of real books: lots of practice of single words in the Practice Books and then to read sentences in a decodable story

the spelling for the first 36 essential irregular, high frequency sight words

to use their phonic knowledge to attempt to spell unknown words

Check out what children achieve with our program at the end of kindy/prep:
Confidence in writing and spelling flourishes - see this writing sample to see the improvements to spelling after only 40 weeks! Reading longer words - check out a page from book 6 which children are reading at the end of kindy/prep

Year One National Curriculum Standards:
Reading: Children “use context, grammatical and phonic knowledge to predict and confirm as they read and to work out unfamiliar words, including words containing learned digraphs and blends”.	Spelling: Children “accurately spell most common irregular words and demonstrate an increasing ability to spell unknown words using sound–letter correspondence and visual knowledge”.
Part Two, of the Get Reading Right program, for year one, gets you to the standard by teaching:
the digraphs for the vowel phonemes, bringing the total number of learned phonemes to 36 to use phonic knowledge to read unfamiliar words reading short regular words using phonic knowledge – in the context of real books: lots of practice with single sentences in the Practice Books and then to read sentences in a decodable stories	how to spell the remaining 36 essential irregular, high frequency sight words use their knowledge of sound-letter correspondence to spell unknown words and visual knowledge to decide if the word is using the correct spelling choice and ‘looks right’

Check out what children achieve with our program at the end of year one:
Confidence in writing and spelling flourishes Reading long passages of text - check out a page from the book children can read by the end of year one

Get Reading Right - everything you need to implement your phonics program to surpass the reading and spelling standards! Give us a ring on 02 8003 3847 or send an enquiry to discuss how to get started.