Two Reading intervention programs running at our school are:
1. MiniLit
MiniLit stands for ‘Meeting Initial Needs In Literacy’ and is an early literacy intervention program. It is designed to be delivered daily, for one hour, to small groups of up to four Year 1 students and/or Year 2 students. This school-based small group intervention program comprises of four lessons per week with qualified MiniLit trained teachers.
MiniLit consists of 80 carefully structured lessons designed to be an effective reading instruction that have emphasised the five key pillars of reading instruction, namely: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. There are three main components of each lesson: • Sounds and Words Activities • Text Reading, and • Story Book Reading.
This program aims to help develop: decoding skills; better fluency when reading; oral segmenting/blending; letter sound correspondences; sounding out words; sight words; reading sentence/paragraphs; spelling and writing newly learned words.
https://multilit.com/programs/minilit-program/
2. MultiLit (MacqLit)
MultiLit stands for ‘Making up Lost time in Literacy’ and is an explicit and systematic reading intervention program for small groups of Year 3-6 student low-progress readers who need to develop rapid, automatic and efficient word recognition strategies. It comprises of comprehensive sequence of lessons that includes all the key components necessary for effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.
MultiLit is designed to be delivered daily, for one hour, to small groups of up to four students. This school-based small group intervention program comprises of four lessons per week with qualified MultLit trained teachers. The primary focus of MultLit is on phonics, or word identification, supported by connected text reading to ensure skills are generalised to authentic reading experiences is an early literacy intervention program. The teaching of phonic skills is addressed through 122 carefully scripted lessons, divided into nine parts, delivered to small groups. The carefully constructed sequence of lessons teaches essential skills such as: Letter-sound correspondences presented in an easy to hard sequence; Strategies for decoding multi-syllable words; sightwords; and Generalising component skills through connected text reading.