Transcript Literacy

In Early Years
“Professionals and parents will come to
understand how much their interactions
with young children make a difference in
the children's later language and literacy
skills.”
Dickinson et al 2001
 Reading
 Writing
 Talking
 Listening
 Home
/ School Partnership
 External Resources
 Variety
of experiences and outcomes
 Record of progression and development
 Transition document from Nursery to School
 Shows next steps in Literacy
I
enjoy looking at books
 I can make up stories related to the pictures
in a book
 I can find my name by looking at the first
letter
 I can use ‘book’ language e.g. Author,
illustrator, title
 I can hold a book up the right way and I can
turn the pages correctly
 Find
your name on the register
 Other words beginning with the first letter of
your name
 Using books and book language
 Bookbug
 ‘Reading’ stories
 Questions and answers
 Sight words
I
can make random marks on the page, my
pencil often does not leave the page.
 I can now draw bodies and sometimes hands
and feet.
 My drawings are purposeful and express my
ideas.
 I can make marks to represent writing.
 I can copy words that have been written or
printed.
 I try to write my own words by combining
letters.
 Pencil grip and control
 Overwriting
 Join
the dots
 Free writing
 Sensory writing
Reading and writing, like everything else,
improve with practise. And, of course, if
there are no young readers and writers,
there will shortly be no older ones.
Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which
many believe goes hand in hand with it – will
be dead as well.
Margaret Atwood.
I
can sit well and listen carefully at group
and story time – sometimes
 I can follow a one part instruction
 I can use language for a variety of purposes –
answer questions and share experiences from
home
 I can take turns in conversation
 I can speak clearly and confidently in a small
group / larger group / audience
 Following
instructions
 Playing games for turn taking
 Story phones
 Listening to stories and answering questions
 Show and Tell
 Welcome and Calendar Time
 Group Leader
“Words are, of course, the
most powerful drug used by
mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
 Bookbug
 Rhyme
Time
 Speech and Language
 Library
 Booktrust Scotland
 Songs and Rhymes
Working at
Home and
in Nursery