Greater expectations
The Literacy Framework can be a useful learning tool for bi- and multi-lingual children, but reinforcing it with targeted and focussed support right across the curriculum can unlock often unexpected potential – Denise Dent explains
By Denise Dent — Freelance Education Consultant, Race Equality in Education
Child labour in the coal mines
This multimedia resource illustrates the working lives of children in the coal mines in Victorian times. It features an extract from the 1842 Children’s Employment Commission inspection report (official formal language), information on Big Pit in Blaenafon, an image gallery, and a hyperlink to a video in which children, in role as miners, act out interviews with the inspectors.
By Teresa Saunders—Educational writer and consultant. Additional text by Helen Watts, Editor, Literacy Time
Reading books without paper
In recent weeks, the media has brought to the public’s attention that school libraries are underused and underfunded. Could the reason be that books are too ‘old school’ for our schoolchildren today? Ben Barton looks at the paperless alternative to books.
By Ben Barton — Publishing Director, Rising Stars
Shoo Rayner stories now available in e-formats
How author Shoo Rayner is keeping up with the digital generation
Also this month
More great articles published this month.
This month's resources
Interactive - Child labour in the coal mines
An interactive resource examining the history of using children to work in the coal mines.
Interactive - The real Camelot
Read the evidence and join in the round table discussion – was Caerleon the real Camelot?
Resource: Primary Framework for Literacy
Lists the learning objectives for the resources in this issue for Year 5-6 children
Using Literacy Time Ages 9-11 Issue 51
Lists the ways in which the resources in Literacy Time Ages 9-11 Issue 51 fit in with key learning outcomes for Year 5 and 6 children.
I am not amused
Skills in formal writing can be developed using this worksheet. To be used with On-screen resource 2, Child Labour in the Coal Mines in Literacy Time Ages 9-11, November 2007.
How to tell a traditional tale
Use this photocopiable in work on storytelling, to identify and prepare the key parts of the story to be told.
Other resources this month
Latest news
Children’s Plan aims for world class schools 12 Dec 2007
£1 billion plan launched by the government for education, welfare and play reforms
£3m pilot to help dyslexic children 11 Dec 2007
Schools Minister Ed Balls announces package of measures to improve support for children with dyslexia
Children ‘reading less at home’ 29 Nov 2007
PIRLS study says children are reading less outside school and brighter pupils’ performance has dropped since 2001.
Support for age-ranging of books 27 Nov 2007
Research shows adults in favour of age guidance on children’s books.
New programme for dyslexic children 14 Nov 2007
Springboard for Children launch new campaign to help dyslexic children
This month's calendar
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| Insulin | St Christopher’s Day | First jet-propelled airliner |
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