Communication and language
Book bags promote home/nursery/school links
Maryhill Park Nursery School worked with parents to develop early literacy and a love of books.
Using Storyline for early literacy
Find out how the Storyline approach can be used to develop language and literacy skills in context.
A wonderful welly walk in the woods
Glen Family Centre went on a wet weather walk and produced a group poem about the experience.
Creating a talking book
Using a digital camera and PowerPoint to promote early literacy skills.
Learning Gaelic vocabulary with ICT
Using software and a whiteboard to extend P1 pupils' Gaelic vocabulary.
Managing a story sack library
Cath Webster involved parents in creating a story sack library to motivate and inspire children.
Supporting bilingual children
Using ICT to promote early literacy skills and improve communication with multilingual families.
Using movies to talk about past experiences
Video helped to prompt children's memories and supported discussion about a recent excursion.
Welcoming bilingual children
ICT can be used to ease the transition from home to nursery for children whose first language is not English.
Developing language through play
Victoria Primary/Nursery Class used play to develop language skills in children whose first language was not English.
A Basque model of learning through play
St Timothy's Primary used the Amara Berri methodology to deliver the curriculum in P1.
Learning modern languages in the community
How the Playbusters project in Glasgow has helped parents and young children to learn Spanish together.
Modern foreign languages in the early years
Local authority approaches to developing and encouraging language-learning in the early years.
A nursery-P1 shared focus on literacy through play
Aberdeenshire's 'Literacy through play' project involved creating contexts for learning through role-play, conversation and discussions.
Soundmoves - developing language through music and movement
Dalcroze specialist Sian Davies presented in-service courses for early years staff across North Ayrshire, incorporating music and movement.