Literacy Roots' daily programme is built around four basic components:

FastTrack Phonics
Colourful mnemonic pictures are integrated with alliterative phrases, sounds, and letter cues to provide phonemic awareness and phonics instruction. Entertaining puppets, chants, and games add fun to the fast-paced systematic instruction that is designed to review and introduce sounds and their written representations. 

Shared Stories
Vibrant story books engage children to practise their decoding, fluency, and comprehension skills. The teacher presents new vocabulary, then guides pupils as they read the decodable story with their partners. Higher-level thinking skills are targeted in whole-class discussion to stimulate children’s oral language and cognitive development as they become confident, enthusiastic readers.

Story Telling and Retelling (STaR) A collection of forty-eight books, both fictional and non-fiction text, are read interactively with children as part of the daily lessons. Using partner talk and response, teachers model and practise the early skills of predicting, clarifying and questioning to support the development of effective reading strategies. Writing In addition to a daily supported short writing task, every third lesson children are guided through a longer writing activity that is related to the theme of both the Shared Story and STaR books. Children think, speak, and work collaboratively with others as they go through the writing process.

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