Sharon Wallace, Effective Teaching and Learning Teacher, Curriculum Support Team, has recently been carrying out a number of Parent Information Workshops in Falkirk establishments.

The aims of these workshops is to provide an overview of the strategies and methodologies used for Active Literacy in class. These workshops begin with a short presentation which examines strategies such as Elkonin boxes, diacritical marking and reciprocal teaching.

During the next part of the workshop, pupils invite parents/ carers to take part in the activities. Here the pupils take on the role of reciprocal teacher and help their parents/ carers take part in activities such as pyramid spelling, phoneme stories, making words and spell-er-cise.

Parent leaflets are given out which explains the terms used in active literacy, alongside useful websites to support with from home.

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