Reading, Writing and Listening and Talking are the key areas of Literacy. Below you will find a range of activities to support this at home.
Reading, Writing and Listening and Talking
Here you will find a range of activities to support your child’s learning at home in literacy and English. You won’t need lots of resources and the activities are designed to encourage your child’s creativity and independence. There are some activities that your child can do on their own. You may want to do some of the activities as a family.
Reading
Some reading guides, sites and videos offering advice and strategies to support parents with literacy at home.
A link to resources filtered by age, includes activities to do with any book and here’s a direct link for encouraging reading at home for all ages.
This is a great resource and one of favourites to use in school. It’s a chance for pupils to learn about their favourite authors and stories. Sometimes they suggest follow up activities to do and each Author’s Live event takes about 30 minutes to watch. It’s easy to search by author or age.
Stories read by celebrities.
This link takes you to fun ideas for learning at home but also have a look at the actual website as they have created a new page for parents and there are a lot of ideas on there to keep you and your bairns busy.
Reading videos, resources and quizzes
