Yarra Me School 2021

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  • Home
  • Our School
    • Reports
    • Working at YarraMe
    • Contact Us >
      • Compass (secure log in)
  • Outreach Services
    • Positive Partnerships Service
  • Preston Program
  • Referrals
  • Hurstbridge Farm
  • Community
    • Child Safety Standards
    • School Council (secure log in)
  • Parent Resources
    • Courses for Parents

How We Do It?


BUILDING LANGUAGE and LITERACY SKILLS  

At YarraMe, oral language activities are fully integrated into the classroom program. In addition, students have the benefit of a speech pathologist working with teachers and in the classroom, offering tailored oral language activities and support. 

YarraMe has also adopted a structured synthetic phonics reading and spelling program, with an underlying focus on phonological and phonemic awareness – crucial for building sight vocabulary and the underlying skills for reading and spelling development (Kilpatrick, 2016). Research has shown that students taught using a structured synthetic phonics approach develop better word reading, spelling and reading comprehension skills (Johnston et al, 2011).

​Students at YarraMe access a tailored structured synthetic phonics reading program, targeting the big 5 of literacy: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Students then practice these five skills through the use of decodable readers.





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