Literacyscape

The Sound Beginnings Literacyscape™ captures the key elements of effective literacy teaching. It highlights the importance of conversation, questioning, vocabulary acquisition and use, and the development of verbal reasoning and abstract language capability. These elements are crucial for all learners to access the language of learning and ensure literacy success. Oral language and communication skills are fundamental for literacy learning and overall development.

Structured literacy involves systematic, explicit instruction covering language structure, the speech sound system (phonology), the writing system (orthography), sentence structure (syntax), the meaningful parts of words (morphology), the meaning of and relationships amongst words (semantics), and language organisation across spoken and written language forms.