Description
This work provides guidelines for teachers implementing the National Literacy Strategy using picture books at Key Stage 1 and 2. The books chosen cover a variety of cultural traditions and include activities at different levels to achieve learning objectives. Photocopiable activity sheets are also provided.
This work provides practical guidelines for teachers who are beginning to implement the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stage 1 and 2. Using familiar picture books, the contributors show how learning objectives can be achieved through meaningful activities related to text.;The picture books used are chosen to help teachers provide a range of interesting and attractive reading material for the literacy hour. They include popular stories, rhymes, myths and legends that represent a variety of different cultural traditions. Each title is outlined and a detailed description of activities at text, sentence and word level is provided, accompanied by photocopiable activity sheets.