For those schools who have taken part in the First Minister’s Reading Challenge this year, the Scottish Book Trust are looking for your responses to the challenge.

The deadline for this is Wednesday 3rd May 2017. You can do so by clicking the link below.

CLICK HERE – Submit Your Response

On Wednesday 14th June 2017, the Scottish Book Trust will be hosting a celebration event and awards ceremony for the Challenge. There will be the opportunity to browse information stalls from key organisations, stalls of schools from across the country that are showcasing their work over the past year and enjoy the award giving presentation.  Schools can apply to attend now by filling out the survey on the link below.

CLICK HERE – FMRC Celebration Event

If you missed it, CLICK HERE for the March 2017 Emerging Literacy Update

Please find below the April Update from the Highland Emerging Literacy Group. This update outlines the Highland support arrangements for the 2017/ 2018 session for Emerging Literacy which have now been finalised. The downloadable documents within the update can be downloaded on the links below:

CLICK HERE: Emerging Literacy Indepth Action Plan for Schools 2017_2018
CLICK HERE: Emerging Literacy – P1-P2 2017_2018

CLICK HERE to download the April 2017 Emerging Literacy update.

Scottish Film Education have made an exciting Career Long Professional Learning (CLPL) opportunity available for Highland teachers.

In addition to their free online Media Literacy support resources through Screening Shorts, Scottish Film Education have created a CLPL programme of support for Associated School Groups (ASGs) which involves training and follow-up classroom support visits to support the development of Film and Moving Image Education across the curriculum.

CLICK HERE to email lmglennon@eden-court.co.uk and book your space

A great opportunity to develop the literacy, digital literacy skills and social studies skills through this learning context.

2017 marks the 75th anniversary of The Famous Five, Enid Blyton’s best-loved book series. To celebrate this Microsoft and Enid Blyton’s publisher, Hachette Children’s Group, have partnered to bring you an exciting Literacy competition for Primary 5s using Microsoft Sway.

Enid Blyton wrote every Famous Five novel with a clear 5-step structure:

• Set up
• Journey
• Adventure
• Resolution
• Return home

Microsoft Education are inviting Primary 5 children across the country to submit a Sway using those five steps, based on a place of local interest (e.g. Five Go To ……).

CLICK HERE – Famous Five – Microsoft Sway

If you missed it, CLICK HERE for the February 2016 Emerging Literacy Update

The March 2017 Emerging Literacy update includes information on:

• Northern Alliance update
• Emerging Literacy – Blog Posts
• Emerging Literacy Network 5
• Book Lists – Scottish Book Trust

CLICK HERE to download the March 2017 Emerging Literacy update.

The Power of Pictures section of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) website is a resource which can be used to support practitioners in exploring picture books through teaching approaches.

The teaching approaches section of Power of Pictures provides guidance on a number of aspects of using picture books in the classroom.

CLICK HERE – Power of Pictures – Teaching Approaches

There are also a selection of teaching sequences which can be used to support lesson planning around the picture books which are referenced to on the site.

Have you checked out Highland’s Digital Learning site?

Digital Learning Highland is a one stop shop for keeping up with Highland’s digital learning strategy. In addition to this there are a number of resources to support practitioners of developing ICT in learning.

Check out the Literacy Tools section for links to a number of resources which support digital learning through literacy.

CLICK HERE: Digital Learning Highland Literacy Tools

When consolidating the teaching of phoneme (the sound) and grapheme (the letter) correspondance and futher developing this to blend and segment words, having access to decodable texts can support your teaching of the phonic code.

SPELD SA have a number of free online decodable texts which can be used to support the teaching of these skills. These can be used universally with individuals and groups to support the consolidation of phonics teaching as part of a literacy workshop.

CLICK HERE – SPELD SA Online Phonic Readers

On the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) website you will find Poetryline – the national poetry centre for primary schools.

The Poetryline website includes a number of resources to support teachers in developing poetry in their classrooms.

The Poems section of Poetryline includes a number of poems which are accompanied by lesson plans and ideas. These can be searched by pupil stage, poet, theme, poetic device or poetic form.

CLICK HERE – Poetryline – Poems

The Classroom Resources section includes a number of different resources which can be used in individual classes and across schools to support the teaching of poetry.

CLICK HERE – Poetryline – Classroom Resources

The Poets section includes interviews with a number of the poets which are featured on the site along with links to their poems and learning resources.

CLICK HERE – Poetryline – Poets

During the filming which took place to create the Words Up Key Messages Videos, there were a number of great learning activities which developed Phonological Awareness skills. Watch the videos below to see the development of some aspects of Phonological Awareness.

Word Boundaries

Rhyme Awareness and Detection

Syllable Detection

Rhyme Production

Onset/Rime