At Sunnyhills we follow a Structured literacy approach for our teaching of the English Curriculum.  A Structured Literacy approach is a highly explicit and systematic way of  teaching all important components of literacy. These components include both foundational skills (e.g., decoding, spelling, handwriting and letter formation) and higher-level literacy skills (e.g., reading comprehension, written expression). 

We have invested in the Little Learners Love Literacy (LLLL) decodable texts, the Heggerty Phonological Awareness Programme and David Kilpatrick's Phonological activities too.  The Ministry of Education's new Ready to Read, Phonics Plus readers will be used in the scope and sequence that we have adopted from the LLLL programme.