Developing Literacy at Haddington Infants February 6, 2008
Posted by jmacaulay in : Assessing Active Learning, Planning for Active Learning, Workshop Ideas , trackbackYesterday, the Primary 1 staff at Haddington Infant School and the Early Years Strategy Group got together to plan an approach to teaching literacy.
The first question we asked ourselves was, “What would a literate child look like?” In pairs, we made mindmaps of our ideas, then went on to develop these further by adding the skills a child would need to have to become literate.
From this, we then went on to think about the key elements in literacy and how they could be tracked. The system the group came up with was relevant to Haddington Infants, as it took into account the shemes of work used and the resources available. The tracking grid was developed to include the milestones that a child would need to reach on their journey to literacy.
Obviously, the next step was to make the system legible!
Here is the tracking grid, although it is still work in progress! There are still a few things that need to be considered eg.which common words list will be used. Hopefully, when it’s all finalised it will enable the teachers to track where the children are and identify next steps for teaching and learning.
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From the tracking grid, we were then able to put together a couple of possible long term planning formats. Again, these are work in progress, and will need to be tried and tested to make them relevant and manageable for the teachers and management in this school.
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