FOOTBALL POSTERS – ” You’re Booked!”

To encourage reading for enjoyment, especially amongst boys, we are delighted that we have been able to persuade both Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC and Ross County FC to be photographed for our new posters campaign entitled ” YOU’RE BOOKED!”.

The two posters show the players reading books, and will be sent to every Highland Primary and Secondary School as part of Highland’s drive to improve literacy skills amongst our young people. It is hoped that each school will display them in a key position and that the pupils will be inspired to read more books.

You are also able to download them from our website www.hvlc.org.uk/hlp . Look under ‘reading for enjoyment’ on the right hand side. LTScotland have also arranged to put them on their main website

We are grateful for LTScotland and Highland Libraries for funding . If the posters prove successful, LTS are hoping to persuade other premier football clubs to take up the challenge to enjoy football and books!

Fantastic Literacy site !

Scottish Borders have recently completed a new Literacy website which is fantastic. It brings all the top interactive literacy sites or pages together under one site. 

It contains a collection of Literacy activities which they have categorised according to the draft CfE levels although I would look at higher levels too.

One of the best aspects are the online interactive books

 

http://www.educationict.org.uk/literacy 

Sharing resources

 

NUMBER ONE REQUEST FROM TEACHERS

Have you written questions for novels that you are using with your class?  This is the number one sharing request from teachers using the Highland Literacy Project as teacher led oral questionning is a key aspect.If you have questions prepared please send them to lorna.sim@highland.gov.uk and I will addd them to the ’sharing box’.

Remember that the sharing box on the website contains lots of other literacy materials made by highland teachers for all to adapt and share.

Books for Polish pupils

Badger Publishers www.badger-publishing.co.uk have a very good selection of dual language reading books for infants up to end of primary/beginning of secondary. Just type  ‘Polish’ into the search box on their website.

RAPID READERS

You may find this resource- Rapid readers, published by Heinemann (Pearson/Longman/Harcourt) of interest for your struggling older readers. They are interesting and modern reading books aimed at pupils of 7-11 years who have a reading age of 5-8 years (level A/B). New pre -level A books are being published in the summer. The books contain both fiction and non fiction sections and both have a before- reading guide for teachers which is very useful. The website is www.heinemann.co.uk

What makes this resource stand out however is the accompanying software. Not only can the pupil follow the story on screen and orally but there is a voice recognition facility. This means the pupil can read the on screen text into a microphone and will be prompted when stuck.

I thought the price was very reasonable. The HLP team have some copies to view although it may be better to contact the rep directly for a 30 day evaluation. morag.gibson@pearson.com