I received an email from Kelsey Moore who is the Education Co-ordinator at Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre and she’s keen to share things they’re up to so we can encourage our children to get involved. They are holding NATURE AND WRITING WORKSHOPS for P4, P5, P6, P7 classes on 13-17 & 20-24 MAY 2013 in celebration of the Year of Natural Scotland 2013. To find out more open the link below!
There’s a lot of talk at the moment about ‘Big Writing’ and many schools out there are already working with the Ros Wilson materials. Our Highland Literacy Group are keen to know what you think and if you know of any other good writing resources that might be of interest to others. We’re keen to take a look at the 6 traits+1 materials (see the images above) and see what these have to offer. We’ll let you know!
I found this great resource on the teacherspayteachers site and it has some good sentence starters/stems to help children when responding to literature. Click below to download them and let us know if they are of any use!
There are many great resources out there that support reading development. ‘Trugs’ is one we thought we’d try and have to say it’s great! Our P2-P7 children have been playing the games and love them! Click on the image above and you’ll find yourself on the Read Successfully website where you can find out more (the video clips on the site are a good place to start).
Click on the image above and you’ll find yourself on the TED website which has a wealth of amazing video clips (mostly for second level and beyond) that can be used for teaching those big ideas that children often find tricky. I love this video, it’s a great one to use in Writing or Reading Workshop to get the children making connections!
Speaking to a few early level colleagues, they’re looking for some new ideas to revitalise what they are already doing in reading and writing. Here are some images that take what we teach the little ones but present it in perhaps a new way! If you know of someone in your school who is doing something interesting with literacy, then let us know and we’ll post it on the blog!
A friend of mine came across this site and it has some great ideas for sensory spelling experiences for children of all ages! Check it out and see what you think: http://www.momto2poshlildivas.com/2012/10/75-fun-ways-to-practice-and-learn.html
Thinking about my plans for next week and all the reading I’ve been doing recently on Literacy I decided to see if I am really managing to implement a balanced literacy program in my P6 classroom… To have a balance we need the following:
As you plan for next week, take a moment to see if you manage to explore each of the ideas listed above. For me it’s been a good reminder of what matters and now my challenge is to be as creative as I can with the time I have as I certainly don’t want to miss anything out!
Some great ways of checking that our planned literacy experiences are focused on thinking about learning… I loved the idea of the Bloom’s Buttons that you’ll see in the slideshow! If you want to know more about these then leave a comment and I’ll let you know how to get hold of them!
This is a good website if you’re looking for ideas to help teach reading strategies. You can filter by age or the strategy you’re teaching and you’ll get texts or passages with lesson ideas and support materials. There’s a lot there to give you ideas, so take a look! http://www.readworks.org/
