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.

Literacy for ALL – Early Level Environment Tool

Literacy Learning Environment Tool Final

Training Sessions

1. Literacy Framework Overview 24-25
2. Listening and Talking Overview 24-25
3. Early Literacy Strategies 24-25
4. Phonological Awareness 24-25
5. Music & Phonological Awareness 2022
6. Fostering a Love of Reading – Our Role (24-25)
7. Developing our Storytelling 24-25
8. Gross and Fine Motor Development (24-25)
9. Mark Making and Emergent Writing (24-25)
10. Early Literacy through Block Play (23-24)

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

Resources for Sessions

Listening and Talking Overview

1. 1. The six stages of communication and language development
   2. 6 Stages Collaborative Task
   3. Conversational styles of children and role of practitioner
   4. Conversational Styles Observation Guide
   5. My World Triangle

Early Literacy Strategies

• Shoot for the SSTARS
• Literacy Story Planners – Gruffalo Example

Phonological Awareness

1. Phonological Awareness Pack
2. Opportunities for PA – Nursery Areas
3. PA Ideas Pack Updated 2019
4. Phonological Awareness Information Leaflet
5. Phonological Awareness Prompt Cards
6. Phonological Awareness Areas Task

Phonological Awareness through Music

1. Classroom Instrument Glossary
2. Concept Flashcards
3. Glossary of Musical Terms
4. EXA Framework Downloadable 28.10.21
5. LPA Handout Songs and Rhymes
6. LPA Y1 Handout – Lyrics.docx
7. Music & PA Activity Pack
8. Music & PA Home Learning
9. Resource list LPAs.docx

Supporting the needs of Bilingual Learners

1. Songs and Chants for EAL Learners
2. Printable Chants
3. EY Profile (paper version)
4. EY Language Profile Support Notes
5. Supporting EAL Learners using Next Steps and Strategies
6. Diversity Books June 21
7. All About My Languages reformatted
8. All About My Languages Staff Guidance
9. All About My Languages Daniel
10. All About My Languages – Bushra
11. Songs, Rhymes and Chants Leaflet
12. Your first language English
13. Urdu_A Precious Gift to Your Child
14. ChineseTraditional_A Precious Gift to Your Child
15. Kurdish_A Precious Gift to Your Child
16. Polish_A Precious Gift to Your Child
17. Linguistic and Cultural template

EAL Team – Early Years Tutorials

• All About My Languages
• Key Documents
• Next Steps

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

Developing our Storytelling 2

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

Mark Making and Emergent Writing

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

Additional Resources

1. Literacy Story Planners
2. Self-Reflection Wheel