Foundations of Literacy: 2nd edition: Ros Bayley: Network Continuum Education

Foundations of Literacy

2nd edition

Foundations of Literacy

2nd edition

Description

1. Learning to Listen

-Discrimination of sounds

-Social Listening

-Developing aural attention span

-Developing auditory memory

-Supporting children's listening

2. Time to talk

-Compensating for language delay

-Talk during child-initiated activities

-Vocabulary development

-Repetition and innovation

-Developing expressive language

-Social language skills

-Supporting talk during imaginative play

3. Music, movement and memory

-Development of steady beat, rhythm and rhyme

-Articulation and song

-Music and auditory memory

-Left-right brain interaction

-A musical setting

4. Storytime!

-Story-telling: developing listening skills

-Story-telling: developing speaking skills

-Reading aloud - five a day!

-Developing imaginative engagement

-Nurturing children's imaginations

5. Learning about print

-Awareness of print

-Alphabet knowledge

-Concepts about literacy

-Sight words

-Supporting children's involvement with print

6. Tuning into sound

-Phonological awareness

-Phonemic awareness

-Phonics: sound-symbol associations

-Supporting the development of phonic knowledge

7. Moving into writing

-Handwriting movements

-Letter formation

-Pencil control

-Shared writing

-Supporting emergent writing

8. Switching on the searchlights

-The Foundations of Literacy curriculum

-Fitting it in

-Creating the Culture

-Smooth transitions

Appendices

-Language development

-PREPARE chart

-The phonemes of English

-Handwriting groups and jingles for large-scale practice

-Stages in emergent writing

-Left-handed children

-FoL audit sheet for practitioners working with 3-4 year olds

-FoL audit sheet for practitioners working with 4-5 year olds

-FoL audit sheet for practitioners working with 5-6 year olds

-Phonics revisited

Practice Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stages and FoL

Product details

Published	20 Jul 2008
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	3rd
Extent	136
ISBN	9781855397736
Imprint	Network Continuum Education
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Ros Bayley

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Jennifer Reid, Speech and...., 2006
An excellent publication; one I know I will return to, to reinforce my own personal knowledge of this area of learning, and also one on which I will be basing a series of staff meetings so that I can get all my staff on board To read the full review please follow this link: http://www.foundation-stage.info/newfsf/articles/previews/FSFArticle_83.php

www.foundation-stage.info - The Foundation Stage Forum, September 2008
The rainbow-style colour coding makes this spiral bound resource easy to flick through, use and photocopy and the revised section demonstrates how EYFS goals are met

Early Years Educator, October 2008
Title mention in 'Practical Pre-School', Martine Horvath, December 2008
This excellent book combines that perfect mix of reassuring theory and practical suggestions on how to translate the theory into effective action.

Julia Strong, Deputy Director, National Literacy Trust
I have been carrying my Foundations of Literacy around with me and using it all the time in my work.

Alli Collier, Sure Start, Orton