9. Shared Literacy Resources in a Designed Area of the School
Careful consideration and planning are required when purchasing literacy resources to meet the needs of students and teachers in a school. With effective assessment more precisely revealing students' needs, teachers can use a range of levelled texts to differentiate instruction for small groups and individual students. Levelled text, like rich literature, is one component in the balance of reading students should experience as they learn to make meaning from text.
In primary schools, with the support of the administrators and the Literacy teacher, have an established centralised resource collection. Such a collection contains sets of levelled texts and such materials as poems, charts, magazines, and teacher resource books that support the teaching of reading to differentiated groups in a classroom. The resources both meet the text level needs of student readers and address their wide-ranging areas of interest.
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Quality Catholic Schooling Link
The school applies its resources (staff time, expertise, funds, facilities, materials) in a targeted manner to meet the learning and wellbeing needs of all students. It has school wide policies, practices and programmes in place to assist in identifying and addressing student needs. Flexible structures and processes enable the school to respond appropriately to the needs of individual learners.