Puppets have to be my favourite resource for encouraging the development of oral communication skills. As children play with puppets, they play with language – alternating voices, creating personas, extending vocabulary, and listening to others. As with many imaginary play resources, puppets also provide children with an open-ended platform to play out their knowledge of […]
Literacy Spot #49: Instructions
When we recently received the Playmobil swimming pool set, Immy and I had a great time working together to assemble it. In fact, Immy is even quite good when it comes to helping with Ikea flat pack assembly! She loves looking at the instructions to see which piece we need next and then matching the […]
Literacy Spot #46: Restaurants, Cafes and Sandwich Bars!
Setting up an imaginative play restaurant, cafe or sandwich bar is a wonderful way to engage children with all forms of literacy – speaking, listening, (pre-) reading and (pre-) writing. Plus it is easy to do at home or at preschool! In fact, this sandwich shop is the latest invitation to play that I have […]
Literacy Spot #42: Old Fashioned Technology
I was very excited to discover that my parents had recently found my old manual typewriter when they were spring cleaning! And even more thrilled to find that it still worked 🙂 I think a good old fashioned typewriter is a fun way for a kindergartner or child in the early grades of school to […]
Literacy Spot #36: Story Cards
Story cards are a fun and easy way to get young children talking, conversing and making stories, and they can be easily adapted to the interests of an individual child or group of children 🙂 While you can source commercial sets of cards (like these Wiggles cards I posted about last year), it is easy […]
