Manaiakalani Share Meeting

 What an amazing opportunity to share with kaioko from across the country! In our connect, we had teachers from Greymouth, Okete and Christchurch and it was so cool to be able to make some connections with what we are all doing in our schools with our inquiries on Structured Literacy.

Top Takeaways:

It was really interesting to hear which Structured Literacy programmes each school was following. Some were using The Code and Little Learners Love Literacy and others were following the Heggarty programme. Many people shared how the problems with having a consistent programme in their schools was due to lack of resources. The 3 other schools were a few years a head of us in their journey and it was great to hear that they were still having success and even more so when their entire junior school was using the same programme. 


The conversations made us think about how incredible it would be to have all of the junior school following a Structured Literacy programme so when they reach year 3 and 4 there would hopefully be less gaps in their reading skills. 

Some further research I would like to look into is the Heggarty programme and what resources they have. It sounds like it is a really interactive programme with hand actions etc. I would also like to look into Scarboroughs Rope and a guide for ensuring we are weaving all of the reading skills into our reading programme.

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