Implementing SSP in Year 3, 4, 5 & 6 Using PLD - Aug 2025 (Cairns)

PLD provides an Australian, evidence-based approach to Structured Synthetic Phonics (SSP) for primary school educators. Aligned with the Science of Reading, PLD’s SSP approach extends from the junior primary years through to the upper primary years and thereby facilitating a whole school approach. This full-day seminar outlines the explicit instruction of phonics, decoding, and spelling along with time-efficient tracking of student performance that informs the targeted teaching.

This one-day Literacy and Learning, a seminar designed for Years 3, 4, 5, & 6, outlines evidence-based structured synthetic phonics (SSP) teaching and student tracking. Despite the range in the ability within each middle and upper primary class, the targeted SSP teaching aims to cater for the literacy outcomes of all students in middle and upper primary students. This seminar provides a scope and sequence that is practical, realistic, and time-efficient to implement and will cater for advanced, average, and delayed students.

Recommended for staff working within Years 3, 4, 5, & 6, this seminar explores:

• A non-standardised spelling placement test in order to determine the specific range within the class.
• How to allocate a proportion of the literacy block to the explicit instruction of spelling and decoding ‘word attack’ skills and also how to facilitate the transference of these spelling words (and ever-increasing sophisticated vocabulary concepts) into writing.
• A synthetic phonics approach for the students operating at a junior primary level.
• For the stronger students, a phonic-based approach focuses on word meanings and opportunities to transfer concepts into writing.
• Oral language instruction and how to facilitate students’ ability to speak in complex grammatically correct sentences.
• As narrative programs have been associated with increasing comprehension and written expression ability, narrative retelling and narrative generation processes are also outlined.

Created to have a broad appeal, these seminars are relevant to all primary school staff involved in Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 literacy learning: School leaders, Literacy Coordinators, Literacy Support Staff, middle and upper primary classroom teachers, and assistants.

For more information and to view the seminar flyer, click here.

Each attendee will receive a complimentary copy of PLD’s scope and sequence for Preparatory to Year 6. This is PLD’s best-selling resource ‘Phonic and Sight Word Sequence' and is valued at over $70.00. This resource is central to establishing a whole school approach and consistency across year levels and across classrooms. It provides phonic concepts for Reception to Year 6 along with phonemic (and phonological awareness) skills, spelling rules, spelling words, high-frequency words, placement tests, term reviews, guidelines for explicit teaching, and screening options which can then be plotted onto PLD tracking sheets. The Phonic and Sight Word Sequence book can be viewed in full online by clicking on the link and then the cover. **

** This book cannot be transferred to other PLD titles**

PLD strives to deliver budget-friendly training solutions for schools by providing cost-effective options. This includes offering uncomplicated, simple lunches and morning teas.

In the event of low registrations, PLD reserves the right to change this seminar to instead be delivered online. If this occurs, all registered users will be contacted via email to be advised of this and provided with the link to gain access to the online seminar which will take place at the same time as the initially-scheduled seminar. Any difference in price will be provided in the form of a credit note or refund if requested.

PLD maintains a 'no refund' policy, with the sole exception being the cancellation of a seminar by PLD. In all other cases of cancellation, individuals are encouraged to re-register for an alternative seminar. For cancellations made within less than 48 business hours, PLD will apply an administration fee of $25.00 and transfer the remaining balance to another seminar.

By attending this seminar, you agree to receive communications from PLD Promoting Literacy Development. You can opt-out at any time.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

TBC, Sir Leslie Thiess Drive, Townsville, Australia