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      • Emerging Literacy – Training Videos
      • Northern Alliance – Principles of Effective Phonics Teaching
    • Concepts of Print
    • Oral Language
      • Language Rich Environments
      • Oral Language Toolkit
        • Concepts – Including Prepositions and Adjectives
        • Information Carrying Words
        • Pre-Teaching Vocabulary
        • Sequence and Narrative
        • Verbal Reasoning and Abstract Thinking
      • Words Up – Key Messages
        • Words Up Videos
          • Play and Talk Together – VIDEOS
          • Pause and Wait – VIDEOS
          • Copy and Add – VIDEOS
          • Be Careful With Questions – VIDEOS
      • Words Up Early (Level 1) – Key Messages Training
      • Words Up Primary – Key Messages Training
    • Phonological Awareness
      • Phonological Awareness – Videos
    • Pre-Handwriting
      • Emerging Literacy – Handwriting: Foundations and Building Blocks
      • Emerging Literacy – Pencil Control Skills
      • Emerging Literacy – Teaching Letter Formation
      • Pre-Handwriting – VIDEOS
    • Working Memory
  • Developing Literacy
    • Creating Texts Overview
    • Decoding (Reading) Overview
    • Encoding (Spelling) Overview
    • Grammar and Punctuation Overview
    • Oracy and Communication Overview
    • Oral Language and Reading Comprehension Overview
    • Reading for Enjoyment Overview
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    • Vocabulary Overview
  • Highland Literacy Framework
  • The Literacy Week
    • Literacy Week: First and Second Levels
    • Structuring Your Literacy Programme

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  • Ideas

  • Organisation

  • Presentation

  • Sentence Fluency

  • Voice

  • Word Choice

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Links

  • 100 Word Challenge
  • 365 Writing Prompts
  • 500 Word Alphabot
  • ABC Ya!
  • Action Aid – Literacy
  • Addressing Dyslexia
  • Admin
  • Adrian Bruce – Reading Games
  • Adult Learning
  • Big Brown Bear – Literacy Software
  • Book Nook
  • Books4All
  • British Council – Learn English
  • bumps to bairns
  • Call Scotland
  • Canva
  • Chartchums
  • Clever Classroom
  • Clicker 6 – Tutorials
  • Dance Mat Typing
  • Digital Magazines
  • Digital Newspapers
  • Doorway Online
  • Dot Dash
  • drawastickman.com
  • EAL Highland
  • English For Everyone
  • Fakebook
  • Film Education
  • Galactic Phonics
  • Gliffy
  • Grammar Practice Park
  • Hip Hop Hen
  • I Can – Talk
  • ICT Games – Literacy
  • instaGrok
  • International Children's Digital Library
  • Into Film Club
  • Jolly Learning
  • Jolly Phonics – Songs
  • Knowledge of Language
  • Literacy Events Calendar
  • Literacy Shed
  • Load2learn
  • Made by teachers FOR teachers!
  • Magnetic Letters Online
  • Make Beliefs Comix
  • Moving Image Education
  • Mr Thorne Does Phonics
  • Mrs P
  • Mrs Pancake
  • My Storybook
  • National Geographic – Young Explorers
  • Nitro Type
  • Nursery Rhymes
  • Oor Wullie – Scots
  • Oxfam Education – Literacy
  • Oxford Owl
  • Parentzone – Supporting Literacy
  • Pearson Language Skills
  • Piktochart
  • POBBLE 365
  • Poetry Archive
  • Poetry Engine
  • POLAAR
  • PowToon
  • Read, Write, Count
  • Room Recess
  • Roy the Zebra
  • SBT – Book Lists
  • Scots Hoose
  • Sculiwab – Scots Language
  • Seeing Ear
  • Sense-Lang Typing
  • Sentence Play
  • Slow Writing
  • Speak up Scotland
  • Splash ABC
  • SSLN Resources
  • Storyline Online
  • Storynory
  • Studyladder
  • Teach your monster to read
  • Teachers Media
  • Teaching Ideas
  • TES Poetry – Primary
  • TES Poetry – Secondary
  • The Communication Trust – What Works
  • The Learning Zoo
  • The Question Matrix
  • TodaysMeet
  • Typing Test – Games
  • We Give Books
  • Worcestershire S&LT Resources
  • Word Hippo
  • Word of the Week
  • Wordnik – Dictionary
  • Words for Life
  • World Book Day
  • You Decide – Political Literacy

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