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Welcome to The Literacy Shed - the home of visual literacy. Here at Literacy Shed we aim to provide teachers with high quality films and animations that can be used in the primary classroom to enhance the teaching of reading and writing. All of the films on the site we think are suitable for primary aged children although some films may not be suitable for younger children. We urge that teachers watch any films before showing them to children.

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A website for teachers filled with ideas for literacy teaching using visual resources such as film, animation, photographs and picture books.

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"hiho kids hiho kids kids videos kids try kids describe food" "kids draw" "kids describe" mailbag "draw my story"

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Sponsor our videos: https://www.cut.com/sponsorship Be sure to subscribe for more fun videos! Send us stuff! HiHo Kids PO Box 19604 Seattle, WA 98109

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Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

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Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

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Resources for Children's Speech and Language

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Children's Speech and Language resources to download

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An example of one activity (Barrier Game) 

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An example of one activity (Barrier Game) 

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Worcestershire Speech and Language Therapy

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According to Walker (2019), 1 in 10 children has speech, language, and communication needs. Fluency, generating sounds and words, composing sentences, understanding what others say, and utilizing language socially can all be difficult for children with SLCN (NHS Education for Scotland, 2018). Thus, this resource offers a variety of games and literacy activities conducted by a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT). Activities such as barrier activities, speech sounds, phonics, and rhymes are introduced and taught in a fun and interactive way. This relates to all three major components, speaking and listening, reading and viewing, and writing in the Literacy Continuum Process/Learning Progression Element.

This is supported by the opportunities provided for the child to interact with an adult in the resources provided. Research suggests that teachers who engage children in rich language interactions and content-rich, intentional instruction boost the skills related to later reading achievement (Wasik, Bond & Hindman, 2006). Thus, through the meaningful and ample amounts of literacy activities provided, children are able to develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills that enable them to be effective communicators despite their needs (MOE, 2013),

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This resource offers a variety of short films or media, which can be used to benefit the children’s language development. For each film provided, there are meaningful embedded ideas and open-ended questions provided that can be used as a literacy activity such as, “retelling the story”, “creating some dialogues between the characters” and “describe the video”. This relates to the listening, interacting, and speaking in the Literacy Continuum Process/Learning Progression Element.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be used to improve children's literacy learning in traditional ways such as oral language, phonological awareness, and letter-sound knowledge (Fellowes & Oakley, 2014, p. 556).

Furthermore, Fellowes and Oakley (2014), reviews that such media aids in their listening, interacting, and speaking element through the elaboration of the experience, retelling, and eliciting the oral story (p. 564). Hence, children are provided more opportunities to practice talking which allows children to learn and exhibit language abilities while also allowing teachers to assess student vocabulary, syntactic skills, and understanding (Greenfader & Brouillette, 2013).

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Looking for fun Road Trip Games to keep your family entertained in the car? This printable I Spy Scavenger Hunt Road Trip Game is a blast for all ages! Two different versions - perfect for family competitions or use one for each leg of the trip!

Turn your road trip into the ultimate scavenger hunt with this fun and free printable road trip game! The key to taking a successful road trip with kids is to keep them entertained and occupied during the long drive. Printable road trip games are one of the greatest (and most inexpensive!) ways to keep kids busy on a road trip, and our printable I Spy Scavenger Hunt road trip game will keep their attention for hours as they search for everything from blue trucks to horse trailers, yellow flowers, and even someone singing in their car!

This I Spy scavenger hunt game is a fantastic way to get kids to put down the electronics and have some family fun during your road trip!

We've included two different versions of the I Spy scavenger hunt game - approximately half of the list of the words repeat in both versions, and half are unique words for that particular page. Having two different but similar versions are perfect for family competition during the drive! We have a few rules that we use when playing Road Trip I Spy, but feel free to make up your own guidelines!

Our rule is this: if we spy something on our list, we have to call it out before crossing it off. Sometimes everyone in the car will spy a truck stop or a livestock hauler at the same time, but only the first person to shout it out is able to cross it off of their sheet. This makes the game last longer for longer road trips, but you can easily adjust the rules to fit the length of your drive.

Your family is sure to love this I Spy Scavenger Hunt road trip game, and you're going to have a blast playing it on your trip!

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This post and its photos may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon associate I earn from qualifying purchases. If you make a purchase through these links, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you! Looking for fun Road Trip Games to keep your family entertained in the car?

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In a timeless Parisien street there is a little shoemaker called Mr Botte. He makes and sells a special kind of shoes and business is good. However, the little shoemaker's life is about to change... a new shoe seller is in town and he will do anything to gain business. Mr Botte's business starts to fail. How will he cope? Maybe he will get some help from unexpected quarters.

Teaching activities:

​Describe the shoemake and his shop.

Retell the story in a fairytale style

Use show don't tell to describe the shoes coming alive but leave your reader wondering what is happening.

Describe the rival shoe maker using specific language to make him sound sly and cunning.

Create some dialogue between the two shoe makers.

Write some dialogue between the shoemaker and his shoes.

Create a new plan to get rid of the shoemaker.

Create persuasive arguments for the little shoe maker's shoes.

Explanations or instructions about how to make magic shoes.

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In a timeless Parisien street there is a little shoemaker called Mr Botte. He makes and sells a special kind of shoes and business is good. However, the little shoemaker's life is about to...

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A video example of conversation between a child and nanny 

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A video example of conversation between a child and nanny 

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Kids Try Their Nanny's Favorite Childhood Food | Kids Try | HiHo Kids

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A video example of how the hunt can be conducted in a transport

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A video example of how the hunt can be conducted in a transport

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An I Spy Treasure Hunt for #OutdoorClassroomDay with Persil | AD

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This resource offers the learning of language through playing a game called "I-Spy" when in transportation. The resource offers an I-Spy Scavenger Hunt list of things to spy with your eyes during the journey. The resource also provides a list of things that can be found during this game, such as, logos, car brands, or items within their environment. This relates to the listening, viewing, and speaking in the Literacy Continuum Process/Learning Progression Element.

This activity during transit benefits children greatly, in terms of, exposing them to a vast vocabulary, targeting speech sounds, and visual literacy (MilestoneTherapy, 2021). As the children are viewing what is around them, listening for verbal instructions, and conversing on what they have found.

This activity is commonly used for vocabulary mastery. Moreover, introducing a new word by showing the real object often helps learners to memorize the word through visualization (Humairah, 2019). Hence, this activity promotes children to be effective communicators (Department of Training [DET], 2009) – Outcome 5.

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Level 1: I spy with my little eyes, "A Blue Car"
Level 2: I spy with my little eyes, something starts with the
'c" sound

Level 3: For the more advanced visually illiterate individuals, we can introduce Road Signs and Logos

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Mealtime is a prime opportunity to engage children in conversations. This resource offers various videos of children trying out various foods individually, with their peers as well as with their families. The interviewer models language skills using a wide variety of descriptive words and simple sentences and asking open-ended questions with the children. This relates to the listening, viewing, and speaking in the Literacy Continuum Process/Learning Progression Element.

Research supports that children who participate in conversations often have a good impact on language development, particularly vocabulary development, according to research. (Ruston & Schwanenflugel, 2010). Through conversing with children during mealtime we are able to expose children to a variety of words such as, ‘green’, ‘fresh’, ‘crunchy’, ‘smooth’, and ‘buttery’. Questions such as “describe the food you are eating” or “talk about the textures, flavors, and temperatures of the foods on the table” can be encouraged during mealtime. Thus, the quality of conversation between children and their peers, as well as between children and their teachers, is critical to language and literacy development (Morrow, 2005).

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Examples of prompting questions to ask your child

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Examples of prompting questions to ask your child

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What items in the room is the same color as the vegetables?

These peas look yummy. They grow in a garden just like ours. Do you know other vegetables that we can grow in our garden?

How does the jam taste like? Is it sweet?

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Each of the 30 Action and Games Songs has been chosen for this album because they either require the child to do something such as move their arms around, clap, jump up and down or follow the actions, or the song is based around a children's game or playground activity. The collection is designed so that the adult can choose a suitable selection of children's songs for party games, or just to occupy their children in an active way allowing them to burn off that excess energy, or simply to pass on this wonderful music to the next generation of children supporting them in their development and enjoyment of music, movement, rhythm and rhyme. All the playground favourites are there including I'm The King Of The Castle, Eeny Meeny Miny Moe and Pat-A-Cake, Pat-A-Cake Baker's Man plus many action songs from The Wheels On The Bus to The Farmer's In His Den as well as Party Games songs such as In And Out The Windows and of course; Hokey Cokey. The tracks have been created with the utmost care and passion to ensure that they are presented in the very best performance and audio quality whilst covering a wide variety of styles and genres. Simple melodies and lyrics steeped in history combined with professional arrangements, real instruments and human performances ensure that both the adult and child can appreciate and enjoy the music together. Furthermore on this collection we have presented every lyric to every track so that the family can all sing, act and play along together.

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30 Best Action and Games Songs For Children

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Each of the 30 Action and Games Songs has been chosen for this album because they either require the child to do something such as move their arms around, clap, jump up and down or follow the actions, or the song is based around a children's game or playground activity.

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This resource offers an exciting literacy game that involves action movements and songs. Children are required to listen to the music played and follow the actions given, such as, “clap your hands”. Additionally, the resource includes songs that require the child to follow the actions, or the song is based around a children’s game. This relates to the listening and interacting in the Literacy Continuum Process/Learning Progression Element.

Songs introduce a new language to children and assist them in recognizing sounds and intonation patterns, which improves their phonological awareness (MOE, 2013). Through this game, it supports the development of children’s ability to listen with attention, to follow directions, and comprehend order and sequence (Fellowes & Oakley, 2014, p.115). Thus, demonstrating the actions of the song to children makes it easier for them to understand the words. This is a simple, yet engaging game as it provides children with a rich opportunity for vocabulary development.