Category Archives: Literacy

Education Scotland newsletter

Education Scotland have produced a Parents and Carers newsletter called Scotland Learns.

Each week, we will publish ideas, hints and tips for parents,
including learning activities that your child can complete on
their own or that families can do together, a selection of these
are included in this newsletter. You won’t need lots of
resources and the tasks are designed to encourage children
and young people’s creativity. We appreciate that many
parents are also working from home, so lots of activities are
designed so that children can work independently once a
parent has gone over the activity with them.

The first issue includes:

  • Suggested learning activities for literacy and numeracy
  • Ideas to support wellbeing
  • Activities focused on staying safe online
  • Hints and tips for supporting your child to learn at home
  • Advice for engaging young people with autism in their learning

Parents and carers can sign up for further issues

https://education.gov.scot/media/mahdmrxm/parentcarernewsissue1.pdf?dm_i=LQE,6V1NG,3LDLFQ,RK3TI,1

MyOn books and MyOn News

MyOn from Renaissance is a huge collection of easy reading books (over 7000) currently available for free.

Each book can be read aloud (and you can change the speed as you need), there’s a dictionary, a zoom function, and you can search or browse by category.

No need to sign up for anything, just hit Read.

https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html

There’s also MyOn News which provides daily articles, again in an easy to read way, but again there are added extras: you can change the news article into French or Spanish, which can also be read to you; you can change the font size; view where the story is taking pace on a map; watch connected videos and slideshows

https://readon.myon.co.uk/news/index.html

Free eBook: The Book of Hopes

The Book of Hopes: words and pictures to comfort, inspire and entertain children in Lockdown

This is a collection of stories, poems and illustrations from over 100 children’s authors and illustrators.

The Book of Hopes aims to comfort, inspire and encourage children during lockdown through delight, new ideas, ridiculous jokes and heroic tales. There are true accounts of cats and hares and plastic-devouring caterpillars; there are doodles and flowers; revolting poems and beautiful poems; and there are stories of space travel and new shoes and dragons.

https://literacytrust.org.uk/news/katherine-rundell-launches-the-book-of-hopes-a-free-childrens-book-by-over-110-authors-and-illustrators/

The book has been published online or free. To read it, please click on the link below

https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/9-12/book-hopes/

Twinkl

Twinkl are offering materials for a range of subjects that match the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence, from nursery through to S2.

There are materials suitable for S1/2 in English and Maths, and a wider range of material for younger pupils.

Sign up for free access.

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/curriculum-for-excellence/school-closure-resources-scotland-cfe