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Literacy Spot #26: Magazines

Kids and magazines

Immy seems to have inherited my enjoyment of magazines. Every now and then we will buy her The Wiggles magazine or an Angelina Ballerina magazine as a treat and she ‘reads‘ them over and over again. She likes us to read the stories to her and to make up her own from the illustrations, there […]

Playopedia Picks: Story Connections

There are a host of new ideas for your playful enjoyment over at Playopedia today so be sure to check them out. Today I am highlighting some of the great ideas for encouraging playful engagement with stories and storytelling which have been submitted so far… Shadow Puppets Story Stones Very Hungry Caterpillar Story Bag Puppet […]

Literacy Spot #25: Brainstorming

Brainstorming - divergent thinking - literacy

I used brainstorming a lot when I was teaching young children; as a tool to determine the understanding/existing level of knowledge of a given topic or to provide insight into the questions that the children had about the topic. When working with pre-reading children (children as young as two years of age), our brainstorm records […]

Literacy Spot #10: Labels

Labelling might seem like a very simple literacy project but toddlers and preschoolers have a natural preference for order through sorting, arranging and classifying, so as well as being a fun way of introducing your child to purposeful literacy this project has the added benefit of appealing to their developing sense of organisation as well. […]

Literacy Spot #8: Speech Development Through Conversation

When Immy was a baby I talked to her a lot – just general chatter about everyday things; things we were doing, people we were seeing, events happening around us when we were out and about. This continued through toddlerhood and even now she is three, Immy and I continue to talk about these same […]

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