19th of February, 2010
8:30am - 3:30pm
Tradewinds Hotel, East Fremantle
Recent innovative international and national system-wide initiatives designed to improve
literacy teaching, and student literacy outcomes, have incorporated the design and
implementation of an Integrated Literacy Block as a major classroom instructional strategy.
The purpose of the Integrated Literacy Block is to ensure all students engage with all
areas of literacy learning and teaching on a daily basis over an extended period of
uninterrupted time (ie, between one and a half to two hours each day). The
daily Integrated Literacy Block sessions are designed around an agreed instructional
framework. This framework provides classroom teachers of all year levels the flexibility to
develop and implement a range of formal and informal literacy teaching strategies. The
learning activities integrate all the areas of literacy instruction and meet the specific needs
of their students. Click here for detailed overview.
