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Resource #1 - Local Professional / Business

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Resource #1 - Local Professional / Business

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This resource equips a teacher or parent with the necessary information to support young dyslexics in their literacy learning. The Main Literacy Programme (MLP), delivered by trained Educational Therapists, focuses on the holistic literacy development of the child in terms of phonemic awareness and phonics, reading fluency, reading comprehension, language and vocabulary and writing (DAS, 2020). And this relates to the reading, viewing and writing parts of the Literacy Continuum Process Model, which is supported by the concept of visual literacy divided into two principles; visuals are a language, and a visually literate person should be able to read and write the visual language (Ausburn & Ausburn, 1978). Hence, through assessments and intervention, a child can improve their visual literacy through the programme - word recognition and representing in prints.

Besides, Amatea (2013) mentioned that there is another paradigm shift in family-school relations, which is revolutionized by the paradigm of collaboration. In this shift, the school staffs embrace the idea of seeing students and their families as collaborators or partners in the effort to educate children (p. 21). Therefore, the resource is beneficial to foster a positive partnership between home and school, child-parent and teacher.

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To Map, Lead and Provide a comprehensive and high-quality programme for young dyslexics delivered by inspired Educational Therapists

The Main Literacy Programme (MLP), delivered by trained Educational Therapists, provides a comprehensive and quality curriculum that supports primary and secondary school learners with dyslexia facing literacy challenges. MLP aims to not only help students acquire the necessary literacy skills to cope with the academic demands but also strives to provide a conducive learning environment for them to develop their strengths and build their confidence and resilience.

Curriculum Framework

Main Literacy Programme (MLP) provides a comprehensive and quality curriculum to support students with dyslexia facing literacy challenges, delivered by highly trained professionals.

Phonemic Awareness and Phonics

Reading Fluency

Reading Comprehension

Language and Vocabulary

Writing

To promote and facilitate reading and spelling development

To equip students with the essential comprehension skills needed to draw inferences

To accentuate the importance of reading fluency through the deliberate planning of reading tasks that take into account students' reading fluency and accuracy

To emphasis vocabulary development of sight and high-frequency word through instructions leveraging on Edu-Technology

To develop diverse localised manuals, materials and resources to cater to the learning needs of students

Language and Vocabulary

Phonemic Awareness and Phonics

Morphology

Grammar for Writing

Advanced Writing

Reading Comprehension

The Main Literacy Programme is part-funded by the Ministry of Education (MOE).
Students are eligible for MOE funding for the MLP under the following conditions:

1. Singaporean students attending a mainstream school

2. Primary 1 to Secondary 5

3. Diagnosed with dyslexia

Your child must maintain at least 75% attendance.

Please note that DAS and MOE will conduct a review of your child's progress before his/her 48, 72 and 96 months on the Main Literacy Programme to determine if he/she has reached specific achievement points to be eligible for continued MOE funding.

The MLP is also available to students who are diagnosed with dyslexia but do not meet the first two conditions. These students can access MLP but they are not eligible for MOE funding.

For a Psycho-Educational Assessment, please click here.

The DAS Main Literacy Programme (MLP) Evaluation is published in the DAS Handbook. To read this click here.

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The Main Literacy Programme (MLP), delivered by trained Educational Therapists, provides a comprehensive and quality curriculum that supports primary and secondary school learners with dyslexia facing literacy challenges. MLP aims to not only help students acquire the necessary literacy skills to cope with the academic demands but also strives to provide a conducive learning environment for them to develop their strengths and build their confidence and resilience.

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This resource includes videos of 22 individual letter sounds that promote phonemic awareness and phonics in literacy. Yopp and Yopp (2009) states that 'Phonological awareness is the ability to attend to and manipulate units of sound in speech (syllables, onsets and rimes, and phonemes) independent of meaning.' The resource is relevant for children to not only learn to read and write but to enhance listening for enjoyment; to differentiate phonemes and rhymes in words, appreciating rhymes, poetry, finger play and many more (Fellowes & Oakley, 2014, p. 209) Adding on, this resource teaches children about letter-sound relationships through phonics which is a method of teaching word recognition or decoding that emphasise the sound-symbol (letter) relationships that exist in a language (Rasinski & Padak, 2013).

And this relates to the listening and speaking part of the Literacy Continuum Process based on Singapore's English Language Syllabus, which is supported by the learning domain of Language and Literacy in Singapore's Nurturing Early Learners (MOE, 2013) Framework. Children will enjoy and show improvement in their listening skills which in turn contribute to their communication skills.

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Resource #3 - Transit songs in a transport

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Resource #3 - Transit songs in a transport

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This resource includes a list of songs that can help build children's literacy skills as they travel from one location to the other. Regardless of their mode of transportation or destination, singing to songs will help to speed up the waiting process!
Besides, the child can choose to read the rhymes, sentence by sentence, if unsure of how to sing. This relates to the reading, listening and speaking parts of the Learning Continuum Process, which is supported by the concept of prints that are "the basic understandings of reading" (McKenna & Stahl, 2009). The child will have the opportunity to work on word recognition, track-printing, appropriate blending and decoding of words and more. A parent or teacher can assess if the child can demonstrate understanding of an emergent reader through this resource. It helps to improve the objective of listening for enjoyment (MOE, 2013).

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Do your kids love to listen to music while playing and working? Are you growing a little weary of the same music selection you are listening to over and over? I've created a new playlist for you to jam along with and learn at the same time!

Music is a great way to build phonological awareness with young children. And, it's a great example of using technology with kids. This playlist is filled with great preschool songs that would also appeal to toddlers and young elementary children.

Here are our favorite kids'songs that build literacy skills.

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If you click each of the links, you can listen to a snippet of each song on Amazon. And, if you have Amazon Prime you can download most of them for free!

And, I have two whole albums that I have to share. Storytime Singalong Vol 1 and Storytime Singalong Vol 2 by Emily Arrow are FANTASTIC. All the songs are based on children's books. Check out this video of The Dot Song.

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Would you love to have some more songs to sing with the kids? Check out our Circle Time Songs and Chants to Build Literacy Skills!

Are you ready for some new songs to build literacy skills? Which one are you most excited to try first? Let me know in the comments below.

*This post first appeared on Growing Book by Book on 3/6/15.

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12+ Favorite Songs to Build Literacy Skills

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Do your kids love to listen to music while playing and working? Are you growing a little weary of the same music selection you are listening to over and over? I've created a new playlist for you to jam along with and learn at the same time!

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This resource offers a list of activities related to the book titled 'If you give a mouse a cookie by Laura Numeroff'.

First off, as cookies are children's favourite snack, it gives an amazing opportunity for parents to engage their child in various activities integrating literacy and more. An example would be to engage children in a cookery activity; it will cover all of the different learning domains such as language and literacy, numeracy, motor skills development and more (MOE, 2013). In line with mealtime, it would be interesting to explore and learn more about food.

Secondly, this relates to the reading, listening and speaking parts of the Literacy Continuum Process, which is supported by the importance of listening or reading aloud. The idea of reading aloud allows children to demonstrate the ability to comprehend and understand the story better. Also, it is the foundation for literacy development (Gold & Gibson, 2018). It improves a child's language proficiency through word recognition, interacting and listening.

Aside, for the older age group, they can look into creating a recipe book. This will help improve their writing skills - visible through their handwriting, usage of inventive spelling, punctuation and grammar.

This is my favourite resource as it has a variety of activities that not only support Language and Literacy development but other areas too!

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I have had such a positive response for this new series of preschool activities paired with popular children's books. I want to make it clear to preschool teachers that YES, you can share this with your students and their families. You can send them a link, print out the printables, and send them in the mail, whatever works for you and your students. I usually ask that all materials are only used for classroom use, but our classrooms are now virtual and remote. I know some teachers are reading the book I share on video and then sending the activities to their students. That's awesome too. These If You Give A Mouse A Cookie activities are some of my favorite. I also use most of these with The Duckling Gets A Cookie by Mo Willems.

The Book

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If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff is a contemporary classic, and if you have ever read it to a group of children, you will know why. The story builds as one thing leads to the next when you give in to the whims of a silly little mouse! This is a great book to work on a bunch of skills. The first being prediction. "What do you think will happen next? Can you make a prediction?" As well as the ability of retelling after you are done reading by asking," What happened next?" these are both really easy and essential tools for early literacy.

Activities for If You Give A Mouse A Cookie

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie Activities with FREE printables

Get All printables for these preschool activities here <- click to download.

Cookie Baking Sequence Cards
Print and cut out these photos, then together with your child, decide on which order they go in. What's the first step for baking cookies? What's next? Just like the book, one action leads to another.

Rhyming Cards
For this activity, cut the four rhyming cards out and grab some buttons to use as markers. Ask your child to tell you what each item on the card is. Ask if any of the items have names that sound the same. Mark the things that do. Repeat with the remaining cards.

Roll & Cover Chocolate Chip Cookie
For this activity, you will need a die or dice, a tray, something to mark the spots if you have chocolate chips, they would be fun to use, and the printable. Roll the dice and cover the same number of dots as you rolled. Keep going until the whole cookie is covered. For older kiddos, use two dice and have them do some addition. For younger kids, you can take turns rolling to make it go faster.

Cookie Jar Letter Match
Print out the cookie jar and the cookies and cut out. If you have a laminator or sheet protectors, you can use a dry erase marker to write some letters in your jar. If not, just use a pencil as I did. Give your child the cookie and match them up! You can work on matching lowercase to lowercase or write uppercase letters in the jar and work on matching upper to lowercase letters.

For younger kiddos focus on letters that are meaningful for them, like the letters in their names. For older kiddos, you can always try using simple sight words like this.

Write Your Own Cookie Recipe
There are many ways of doing this activity. You can actually bake cookies and write the literal recipe down and have your child draw a picture of the yummy treats, you can ask your child to what they think would go to a real cookie recipe, or you can go full silly silly and write a fantastic recipe with things like rainbows and unicorn glitter. Just have fun writing and drawing together.

Preschool Activities for If You Give A Mouse A Cookie without Printables

Easy Mouse Craft
This craft is easy for young children to make, and you can do it with recycled cereal boxes if you have no heavy paper on hand.

Cookie Match Up
I made these with foam, but plain paper and markers work well too.

Paper Plate Cookie Craft
If you don't have the supplies for puffy paint, just use regular paint!

Painting with Cookie Cutters
Letter cookie cutters are the best, but you can use anything!

Playdough and Cookie Cutters
I do love these letter cookie cutters but use what you have to explore "making cookies".

Playdough Bakery
Is it just me, or are these activities making you crave cookies too?

Constellation Cookies
Science and chocolate chip cookies together? Genius!

C is for Cookie - Letter C Cookies.
I can't promise you won't gain weight with these activities, but your child will have a lot of fun while they learn.
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I need a simple preschool plan instead.

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If You Give A Mouse A Cookie Activities for Preschool

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I have had such a positive response for this new series of preschool activities paired with popular children's books. I want to make it clear to preschool teachers that YES, you can share this with your students and their families.

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Resource #5 - Charade with Household members!

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Resource #5 - Charade with Household members!

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Both child and adult can enjoy a game of charade!
This resource includes different keywords for different topics that are age-appropriate and suitable for everyone to have fun! Literacy skills can be acquired through games and not only through listening or reading. This relates to the reading, viewing and speaking part of the Literacy Continuum Process Model, which is supported by the five modes of communication (Arola, Sheppard & Ball, 2014). A game of charades enhances non-verbal communication skills which, encourage viewing and understanding the situation. Through gestures, it includes every being to be involved in the game. Besides, charades improve vocabulary as it allows players to learn a new word each time! This will improve the interaction between child and others.

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Creative Charades Ideas You Haven’t Thought of Yet

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Put your acting skills to the test with these easy, hard, and downright funny topics.