alphabet action plan 2 for

							              Virginia
 Primary                                               LITERACY                                Page: 1 of 1
 School                                                ALPHABET                                Issue: 1
 Action                                                                                        Date: Jan 2011
 Plan


CONTEXT:
In 2010 teachers undertook PD relating to ‘The Big 6 in Reading’; (oral language, phonological awareness,
phonics, vocabulary, reading fluency and comprehension.) Several staff attended regional PD facilitated by
Anne Bayetto, Lecturer Education, Flinders University. Anne strongly recommended learning the alphabet as
an important addition to the ‘big 6’ and outlined the following aspects as important:
Children need to learn the alphabet: capitals (name and sound) and lowercase (name and sound). They also
need to learn which letters are vowels and which are consonants, alphabetical order and a range of fonts. Children
need to be able to produce capital and lower case letters, know directionality and correct letter formation and
develop automaticity of letter formation.
Anne outlined clearly that the approach of teaching a letter a week, as some teachers have done, is much too slow.
 FOCUS FOR                       Actions                                               Evidence/ outcomes
 IMPROVEMENT
 Teach recognition of names
 and sounds of lowercase
 letters
 Teach recognition of names
 and sounds of uppercase
 letters
 Teach vowels and
 consonants
 Alphabetical order

 Teach students to form
 correctly capital and
 lowercase letters
 Automaticity of alphabet
 formation
 Classroom differentiation:
 (Refer to individual student
 assessment to determine
 what students need to learn:
 class/ small groups)
 Classroom intervention for
 identified children:
 (Refer to individual student
 assessment to determine
 what students need to learn:
 small group/ individual)
 Undertake and document
 ongoing formative
 assessment