In this section you can find teaching resources, guidance, and information about supporting structured literacy approaches in your school.

Structured literacy approaches support students to develop strong literacy foundations. Systematically and explicitly teaching the elements of structured literacy approaches to novice learners strengthens their understanding, helps to manage their cognitive load, and maximises their progress in acquiring literacy.  Structured literacy approach elements include oral language, phonemic awareness, systematic synthetic phonics, handwriting, vocabulary, morphology, syntax, fluency, text structure, writing processes and comprehension.  They are reflected in the content of the teaching sequences and teaching considerations of the English learning area.

See the refreshed English learning area (years 0- 6) for more about structured literacy approaches.