Developing Early Literacy Skills

Katharine Bodle is a freelance Dyslexia Consultant. She worked as a Beacon Teacher at a Dyslexia -friendly primary school where she helped to publish resource materials to aid mainstream teachers. She also featured in a Teachers TV documentary Teaching the Dyslexic Child. She has lectured on courses to train teachers to identify and teach Dyslexic learners and structured spelling courses as well as OCR Level 5 courses training Specialist Teachers in Specific Learning Difficulties. She delivers INSET training in schools on Dyslexia Friendly Classrooms and Continuous Cursive Handwriting and advises teachers on practical strategies to support children in a mainstream classroom. Currently she is the SENDCo at a primary school endeavouring to ensure that literacy and other learning difficulties are identified and remediated as early as possible.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Key facts

How to use this manual

How to use the activities

Setting up teaching situations in school

Tips for working with children at home

Section 1: Basic skills

Section 2: Rhyming

Section 3: Learning the alphabet

Section 4: Phonological awareness

Section 5: Reading

Section 6: Writing and handwriting

Conclusion

Resources and suppliers

Useful organisations

Recommended Books for Young Children

References and Further Reading