Literacy for all in our Playrooms is a career long professional learning programme designed to support the development of early language development for our young learners.  For session year one the focus will be on listening, talking and early conversational skills. In year two, we continue to develop this further with a focus on reading and early writing and mark making.

Literacy For ALL Framework

The Literacy for ALL framework is available below. All early level trackers and supporting back pages are available here.

Literacy for ALL Framework and Supporting Guidance – updated 3/2/22

Literacy for ALL – Early Level Environment Tool

Literacy Learning Environment Tool Final

Reading and Research

The sessions have been written using the following key texts to support:

• Learning language and loving it; Elaine Weitzman and Janice Greenberg, 2002
• ABC and Beyond; Elaine Weitzman and Janice Greenberg, 2010
• Mary Sheridan’s From Birth to Five Years; Ajay Sharma and Helen Cockerill, 2014
• Development Matters in the Early Years Foundation Stage; The British Association for Early Childhood Education, 2012
• Teaching Talking; Ann Locke and Maggie Beech (GL Assessment), 2005

Lead Practitioners/Team Leaders/Partner Champions

1. Year 2 Session 1 – Developing Our Storytelling 1 (23-24)
2. Year 2 Session 2 – Developing Our Storytelling 2 (23-24)
3. Year 2 Session 3 – Fine and Gross Motor Development (23-24)
4. Year 2 Session 4 – Writing and Mark Making (23-24)
5. Year 2 Session 5 – Early Literacy through Block Play (23-24)

Leadership of Change Sessions

1. Leadership of Change Session 1 (Year 2, 2023-2024)
2. Leadership of Change Session 2 (Year 2, 2023-2024)

Universal Twilight Sessions

1. Session 1 – Developing Our Storytelling 1

Resources for Training Sessions

Session 1 – Developing our Storytelling 1

1. Checklist for turning book reading into a conversation
2. Higher Order Thinking Fans EY
3. Sustained-Shared-Thinking-Alternatives-to-Questions
4. Literacy Story Planner – Template
5. Literacy Story Planner – Gruffalo

Session 2 – Developing our Storytelling 2

Session 3 – Fine and Gross Motor Development

1. Images early writing and deconstructed role-play
2. Young_in_art – A developmental look at child art
3. Fine and Gross Motor Development
4. Motor Skills Planning

Session 4 – Mark Making and Emergent Writing

1. Emergent Writing Skills
2. Mark Making Resources
3. Deconstructed-Role-Play
4. Developmental stages of writing
5. Mark Making Matters

Other Resources

HGIOP-Template-2023-2024

Leuven Scale Group Template

Blank-POLLI

POLLI ‘you choose’ Share Interactive Reading Strategies

Self-Reflection Wheel