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1. Years 2 -7
Literacy Teaching.
Reading to Learn
Speed Reading
and Higher Order
Thinking.
Using a Writer’s
Voice with high
level grammar
and punctuation
skills and a focus
on content.
Prep and Year 1
Learning to Read,
Write and Spell
Independently. Phonemic Awareness, Auditory Processing and Oral Language Issues Overcome.
Incorporating
Big Write

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When this 2 hour block is used in Prep and Year 1 you can then simply use
the 1 -2 hr block in Years 2- 7 for literacy teaching as all can now read
and spell. See next slide.
However, if they have not used SSP in Prep and Year 1 you need an SSP Bridging
Program.
The ideal is that in term 1 (or terms 1 and 2 if necessary) that you use the whole 2 hour
block to make sure all are coding effectively, and all understand HOW to read, write and
spell. It is clear to the students that all need to graduate from Blue before the end of the
term. So give them the Code Level video to do at home (they can do this without parent
help) and when they ‘pass it’ they move up. To pass it you just watch them going through it
(get a TA to assess, or a keen parent helper) By the end of this one term – in Years 2- 7
EVERY student in the class should be able to read chapter books, and understand them, and
be able to spell words without difficulty.
So in term 1 (and possibly 2);
Speedy Decoding in Pairs.
Daily Six
*Year 2 and 3 – Poster Work. *Use this with individual children in Years 4-7, as
Rapid Writing a 1:1 or small group intervention task three times
Cracking Comprehension week (45 mins) along with the brain training
. videos for coding and sight words .

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Speedy Decoding in Pairs.
Timed read alouds.
Speed reading, memory
task. (30 minutes)
Also plan a 20 minute silent reading
for pleasure time, ideally after lunch.
Speedy Six.
Cover all 46 Spelling Clouds in 4 terms
within activity 1 and 2.
(45 minutes)
Alternate:
Writing for a Purpose.
Cracking Comprehension.
(30 - 45 minutes)
Speed Reading task questions. (5 mins)

6. Six Daily Activities.
The Speedy Six ! This is a stand
alone Spelling Program
These have nothing to do with
Code or Reading Level – the whole
class does this together.
Encourage collaborative learning.
Incorporates fast mapping.

7. Say a word, the students use the SSP Spelling
Strategy, up to the lines and numbers.
Stop, discuss.
Agree on lines.
Then make choices. Discuss. Look at Clouds.
Put in a sentence. Change the tense. Is it
meaningful to you?

8. Write a word on the board. Tell the students what is it.
Put it in a sentence. Visualise. What does it mean?
Is it meaningful to you?
They use Duck Hands to work out the speech sounds.
Write the word on their board.
Underline the sound pics and number.
Discuss. (they could then put into
a sentence, and change the tense.)
There are 46 unique Spelling Clouds. Go through
each during the year, covering every spelling choice
for each. Incorporate ‘wow words’ etc (extend vocab knowledge).

9. Listen for the focus speech sound.
Conductor reads a sentence (prepared) twice.
Students work out the word/s with that speech sound,
and the number sound pic/s.
‘I was rushing to the beach to build a sand castle’
‘sh’ – word – rushing- number 3 word, number 3
sound pic r/u/sh/i/ng
Conductor might ask some students to do it orally,
and for others to write the word and underline the
sound pic.

10. ‘Hold a Sentence’
Some students may do this orally if outside of their
Code Level, and other write it.
However it is easier if you give a sentence at their Code
Level, and all write them. Tell students to listen to their
level sentence (you can use Speedy Sentences at first,
or create your own).
Hold It
Write It
Read It
Check It
Change It.

13. Give students a made up word !
They use the Spelling Strategy, but then put as many choices as they can in
the time. This will improve the time it takes for them to find the right clouds,
reinforce the spelling choices they already know, and show them new ones.

14. During the week students can also create words
using the wrong sound pics for the right speech
sounds, and see if they can build a word
no-one can work out !
ptynne ( pt / y / nne ) - tin

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