At Whittington Primary School our Literacy program is consistent with the Victorian Curriculum F-10 and provides fundamental skills, strategies and attitudes towards learning. We aim to foster a lifelong love of reading in our students, as well as confidence in their writing and effective communication skills. We believe all students can achieve success in Literacy and transfer skills into their daily life.

In Reading, students explore the processes of learning comprehension, accuracy, fluency and expanding vocabulary skills, to help them develop their reading strategies. Beginning from Prep, students build their comprehension skills by making connections to the texts that they read and develop thorough decoding skills to enable them to become competent and confident readers.

Teachers collaboratively plan rich learning experiences that follow our whole school Reading Instructional Model, consistent with research-based instructional strategies that have high impact on student learning. We meet our students wherever they are in their learning journey and support and extend them according to their point of need. Teachers use the Fountas & Pinnell system for the assessment of student reading levels.

Our students learn to write authentic texts intended to be read by others, and are guided through the writing process through explicit teaching and worked examples. Students learn to identify and use the different features from various genres such as narrative, informative and persuasive texts. Our students are nurtured to become confident and capable writers.

All students are fostered to pursue their literacy skills with a growth mindset, developing resilience and responsibility in their approach to learning.