{"id":12958,"date":"2020-05-07T12:15:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/Carmondean\/?p=12958"},"modified":"2020-05-09T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T16:27:36","slug":"recommended-literacy-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/Carmondean\/2020\/05\/07\/recommended-literacy-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Literacy Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>West Lothian Literacy Base has\u00a0pulled together some of the resources\/websites out there which, although relevant to all learners, are particularly relevant for learners with significant literacy difficulties. Links to the suggested resources are below.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Resources suggested for Parents\/Carers\/Families:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Free access to games during Coronavirus situation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/new.phonicsplay.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/new.\u200bphonicsplay.co.uk\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Free access during Coronavirus situation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/readingeggs.co.uk\/coronavirus-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/readingeggs.co.uk\/coronavirus-covid-19\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Free audio books\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stories.audible.com\/discovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">https:\/\/stories.audible.com\/discovery<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Touch Typing with BBC DanceMat\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/topics\/zf2f9j6\/articles\/z3c6tfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/topics\/zf2f9j6\/articles\/z3c6tfr<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Touch typing, literacy and memory activities\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a id=\"LPlnk689742\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doorway.online.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.doorway.online.org.uk<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Memory and Learning Skills app Dyslexia Quest (<span lang=\"EN-GB\"><b>not free<\/b><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">)\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a id=\"LPlnk124965\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nessy.com\/uk\/apps\/dyslexia-quest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nessy.com\/uk\/apps\/dyslexia-quest\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Phonics app (<span lang=\"EN-GB\"><b>not free<\/b><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">) Phonics with Phonograms for iOS devices, sold on Apple App Store<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Literacy games online\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ducksters.com\/games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">https:\/\/www.ducksters.com\/games\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif\">Support Website for children and young people\u00a0<a id=\"LPNoLP472887\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unwrapped.dyslexiascotland.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.unwrapped.dyslexiascotland.org.uk<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif\">My Study Bar portable tools to support planning, reading, writing, voice and vision for older pupils with literacy difficulties\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduapps.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">www.eduapps.org<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif\">Natural Reader Free text-to-speech toolbar\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalreaders.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.naturalreaders.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Seeing AI (app) from Microsoft; reads text in front of device camera\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Lothian Literacy Base has\u00a0pulled together some of the resources\/websites out there which, although relevant to all learners, are particularly relevant for learners with significant literacy difficulties. Links to the suggested resources are below. Resources suggested for Parents\/Carers\/Families: Free access to games during Coronavirus situation\u00a0https:\/\/new.\u200bphonicsplay.co.uk\/ Free access during Coronavirus situation\u00a0https:\/\/readingeggs.co.uk\/coronavirus-covid-19\/ Free audio books\u00a0https:\/\/stories.audible.com\/discovery Touch Typing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/Carmondean\/2020\/05\/07\/recommended-literacy-resources\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recommended Literacy Resources&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pupil-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/Carmondean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/Carmondean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/Carmondean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/Carmondean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/Carmondean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12958"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/Carmondean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12962,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/Carmondean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958\/revisions\/12962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/Carmondean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/Carmondean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/Carmondean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}