Welcome to Literacy Advance
Welcome to Literacy Advance - a specialist literacy support service providing face-to-face and online sessions to children aged 5 to 8 years who are experiencing challenges with learning to read and write. Literacy Advance was founded by Danielle Steendam, and is based in Nambour on the Sunshine Coast QLD. Each learning journey for each individual who comes to Literacy Advance begins at the same point - where they are currently at! We help children make progress from this point to the next by providing friendly, individualised, evidence-based instruction that not only helps develop the necessary skills to build a strong foundation for literacy - but also builds confidence! Children experience success with their learning at Literacy Advance!
Danielle Steendam
Danielle Steendam is a highly qualified and experienced Early Years teacher who has worked for almost two decades in a range of educational settings across Australia, including preschools, classrooms in urban and remote schools, and extremely remote Indigenous communities in Queensland, Northern Territory and beyond. These diverse teaching contexts and the many challenges that students experienced with learning, and curriculum readiness helped foster a deep understanding of how to effectively support children who have varied linguistic, cultural and learning profiles.
Learn more about Danielle here.
Our Approach
Literacy Advance offers personalised literacy support for children aged 5 to 8, focusing on early intervention during the critical years of reading development. Services include comprehensive diagnostic assessments, one-on-one tutoring, and small group sessions, all tailored to each child’s individual learning needs.
1. Understand
Learn what is driving your child’s literacy challenge, and come to understand the steps needed to support their learning journey.
2. Approach
Book for term-based individual or group classes to suit your child’s needs. Follow their progress in our unique collaborative family-based approach.
3. Advance
Every new reader is a story of persistence, growth, and hope. Together, we’re helping children build skills that last a lifetime.
Apply for Tutoring
Please visit this page to learn more about tutoring.
The Right Combination
Learning to read and write is a complex process. Making progress towards a strong literacy foundation requires addressing the specific challenges experienced by individual learners. This means in the first instance being able to measure the right thing! This can then inform the provision of the right instruction at the right time with the right intensity and the right frequency. Being attuned to what success looks like for individual students helps to make adjustments to instructional delivery to maximise outcomes.
Contact Us
If you’re interested in learning more about our service, please visit our applications page where you can learn more about our program and book an initial assessment, if our program is suitable for your family.
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