Sunday, April 20, 2014

Literacy

Literacy requires knowledge of the many purposes of reading and writing. There are many different routes children take to literacy. Children arrive with great variations. 10 - 20% of children will experience difficulties with literacy through their school years. Young Learners: Children's interests, intelligence and play. Margaret Brown.

Mason's book

Monday, February 24, 2014

Building directional language

"Young children acquire simultaneous command of multiple directional concepts through interacting with their world and hearing words to describe it." Gill Connell & Cheryl McCarthy (2014) P 170 A Moving Child is a Learning Child

Sunday, February 9, 2014