An introduction to the

Literacy Challenge

Students who are engaged with their learning attend school more regularly, have fewer behaviour issues, form strong friendship groups and achieve better educational outcomes.

 

The Literacy Challenge has been developed following nealry 30 years working and researching literacy development in Western Australian, National and International schools. The program is an evidence based approach to promoting literacy skills that incorporates proven scaffolds and proqctive student engagement techniques.

 

At the foundation is a structured program that establishes purpose and rewards the achievement of literacy skills through;

• individual achievement,
• inter-class competition (same school) and
• inter-school competition.

Individual performance contributes to team performance which contributes to whole school performance. When one child achieves a literacy milestone, everyone benefits.

 

This project promotes a strong sense of empowement, purpose and sense of togetherness among students. All factors that have been shown to promote student engagement and learning.

 

The program intentionally rewards skill development in four key literacy domains: vocabulary building, alphabet decoding, reading decoding and writing coding.

 

Staff, student leaders, students and parents are provided with targeted professional learning to assist them develop as individuals and support the literacy growth of students. Teacher judgement of individual and group performance is encouraged.

 

The goal for all participants is simple: strive to achieve your best!