This Accessible Read Along is for learners working across early and first level in Additional Special Needs classes and schools in Scotland.
Join this 30 min accessible Live Read Along of ‘The Bongles and the Crafty Crows’, with Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Joanna Courtney from CALL Scotland.
Joanna will take us through an accessible format of the story and we invite you to turn on cameras* and microphones* to enable the children to join in with us, by commenting and answering questions using the BookBug symbolised resources visual supports either as printable PDFs, or as printable overlays for communication devices used in your class; Big Mack, Go Talk 9+, Little Steps. You can also download and use the digital recorded communication board ‘Sounding Board app story board’ .able file for iOS app Soundingboard on your iPads.
*This session will not be recorded.
Who are The Bongles?
The Bongles are characters in a unique and first-of-its-kind learning resource for children, demonstrating the importance of cyber security through the medium of text. In the story, The Bongles strive to protect their treasure from The Crafty Crows and learn how to achieve this though trial and error. This unique rhyming story is part of the wider Bongles collection, created by Edinburgh publishing company, Story Learning Ltd. The Bongles and the Crafty Crows story was developed with the support of the National Cyber Security Centre, Cyber Aware, Scottish Government and Education Scotland.
Within the Scottish curriculum (CfE), children are supported to assess and manage risk and understand the impact of risk-taking behaviour in all aspects of play and learning; this includes the safe and secure explorations of digital technology – Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety.
Please download the appropriate symbolised resources for the children in your class ahead of the read along for The Bongles and The Crafty Crows Story. Just scroll down to The Bongles and the Crafty Crows resources – Primary 1 family bag – symbolised resources (symbolsforall.org.uk)
Find out more about How to Use the Symbolised Resources
If you have any questions beforehand about how to help your learners join in using the symbolised resources, please contact Joanna at joanna.courtney@ed.ac.uk
Please sign up here.
