In preparation for next session, we are interested in finding out the schools who plan to include Emerging Literacy within their School Improvement Plan in 2016/2017. If Emerging Literacy is part of your school improvement plan for 2016/2017, please complete the two minute survey below.
Visual supports enhance understanding of the environment, help to organise information and ourselves. Visual supports stay in sight long after the spoken word has gone.
They understand what they SEE better than what they hear.
Visual supports can help children to understand and anticipate what’s going to happen. They provide structure and predictability and promote independence. Visual supports enhance children’s understanding therefore can reduce anxiety and enhance the child’s ability to learn.
CLICK HERE – Highland Using Visual Support Good Practice Guidelines
When teaching children to source information, one of the skills we teach is skimming and scanning. The Big Scan Game from the BBC allows children to develop their skimming and scanning skills against the clock.
To support strategy based reading instruction within your Literacy Workshops, check out the Strategies for Teaching Reading document.
To support schools in sharing the Emerging Literacy approaches and materials with families, a family learning resource has been created. This could be used with families during the Nursery – Primary 1 transition meeting or during a Family Literacy event. Each slide comes with comprehensive notes for the facilitator and links to suggested resources on the Highland Literacy blog.
http://www.slideshare.net/jcook133/emerging-literacy-family-resource
The resource is freely available to download; however, we kindly ask that any modifications that are made to the resource credit the work of Highland Council’s Emerging Literacy Working Group.
Based on the television show, Countdown, the word building game can be used as part of literacy workshops to further develop phonics and spelling. Learners can work individually, or in competition with one another against the clock.
Wishes for Our World is a free new teacher’s resource for you to download and use, based on a moving letter written by Michael Morpurgo, former children’s Laureate and ‘War Horse’ author.
The letter is from a grandfather to a granddaughter about the world he loves and wants to protect from climate change and has inspired a beautiful 5 minute film starring Jeremy Irons.
Created for Second Level (CfE), the resource encourages children to explore the issue ofclimate change in an inspiring new way. It’s packed full of creative activities and discussion ideas that will get pupils thinking, talking and writing.
The Emerging Literacy Group have now published support resources to support the development of Phonological Awareness in classrooms.
For each aspect of the Phonological Awareness Developmental Continuum you will find a number of classroom activities which can be used to support the phonological awareness development of individuals, small groups and whole classes.
CLICK HERE to access the Phonological Awareness page
By clicking on each of the tiles below, you will find classroom strategies which can be used to develop that aspect of the Phonological Awareness continuum.
Check out the National Geographic Young Explorer site to access read long interactive non-fiction texts and lesson plans.
You will find free interactive white board resources on the ‘For Teachers’ section of the website.
CLICK HERE to access a catalogue of issues.
Each of the developmental areas – Concepts of Print, Oral Language, Phonological Awareness and Pre-Handwriting – now have their own tabs within the Emerging Literacy tab. In addition to this you will find a tab for the Developmental Overviews and POLAAR . Click the images below to access support materials for each of the areas.
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Concepts of Print
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Oral Language
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Phonological Awareness
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Pre-Handwriting Skills
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POLAAR
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Developmental Overviews
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The International Children’s Digital Library has a number of books in English and many different languages that can be accessed and read online. This is a great resource which can be used for shared reading, guided reading, independent reading or with English as an Additional Language learners in their first language.
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