Using the Continua
Navigating Literacy
Navigating Numeracy
Literacy Content
Numeracy Content
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Tools to monitor student progress.
What are the literacy and numeracy continua?
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The 8 skills considered as critical for success in literacy.
What are aspects?
100
A progression of learning that can be used when observing students.
What is a continuum?
100
Words with the same or similar meanings.
What is a synonym?
100
The process of immediately recognising how many items are in a small group.
What is subitising?
200
Teachers will know where to start from in their teaching and know where to go next for student learning.
How can I use the continuums to inform teaching?
200
A subset of skills showing sequential development within an aspect.
What are clusters?
200
A link between aspects that illustrate a requisite level of knowledge.
What does the paper clip represent?
200
Involves responding to, interpreting, analysing and making connections.
What is comprehension?
200
visualising concealed items, using fingers as markers for numbers when the total is bigger than 10.
What is figurative counting?
300
Video Footage, work samples, observations, anecdotal evidence, NAPLAN, running records, survey and tracking and monitoring sheets.
What evidence can be used?
300
A collection of skills that show progress towards achieving a cluster.
What are markers?
300
Knowledge of the structure of units in length, area and volume.
What is Measurement?
300
Reads most of a challenging book, maintains fluency, hesitiates when meaning is disrupted, RR level 5-8.
What is Cluster 4 in Reading Texts?
300
Using groups or multiples for counting.
What is skip counting?
400
Literacy skills are arranged sequentially, Numeracy skills are inter-related and overlapping.
What is the difference between the Numeracy and Literacy continua?
400
Aspects that have are finite in learning and development.
What are constrained skills?
400
A code listed at the bottom of the markers to indicated expected levels of achievement aligned with the syllabus.
What are outcomes?
400
Oral, aural, written, visual, electronic and multimodal forms of communication.
What are texts?
400
Comparing the size of 3 or more objects.
What is transitivity?
500
A classroom display that allows children to monitor their progress based on the continua.
What are 'Walls that Teach'?
500
Areas of knowledge and skills that 'run' within an overall aspect.
What are threads?
500
Skills that should not be regarded as distinct from one another, nor developing in a fixed order.
What are aspects?
500
Hearing and manipulating sounds in spoken language.
What is phonemic awareness?
500
Using a unit repeatedly to measure length.
What is iterating?
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