https://padlet.com/htan0076/LiteracyResources Ideas for your literacy journey en-us 2021-08-11 12:40:13 UTC 2024-08-22 02:27:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png htan0076 https://padlet.com/htan0076/LiteracyResources/wish/1675397252 Speech bubbles offers therapy services for persons with a range of speech and language difficulties at the comfort of your own home. One notable area they specialise in is social communication difficulties, where they teach children to encode and decode literacy elements in a social interaction context. This relates to the listening and speaking element under the National Literacy Learning Progression (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2020). Part of their service also includes empowering caregivers with skills to identify teachable moments at home.

Parents empowerment and ability to guide their child is crucial in helping them overcome their communication difficulties (Alias & Ramly, 2021). The home-based therapy service helps families to make the right modifications that creates a optimal learning environment for the child. Through close partnership with the family, the therapist empowers family members with ideas and skills curated for the child reach their social communication goals. 

]]> 2021-08-11 12:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/htan0076/LiteracyResources/wish/1675397252 htan0076 https://padlet.com/htan0076/LiteracyResources/wish/1675418121 The video provides teachers and parents ideas to spice up their children's writing experiences through multi-sensorial activities. These activities engages the different senses to develop writing skills such as manipulating writing materials, letter forms and its formation. With almost all the materials easily found in your household, these activities are easy to carry out and fun for your child. These activity ideas relates to the writing element on the National Literacy Learning Progression (ACARA, 2020).

These ideas actively involve children in their learning through a range of activities that stimulate different senses. According to Rees & Newton (2020), in order for a person to interpret and understand new information well, the brain functions at its optimal level when it integrates information from all senses. Through these hands on activities, children are able to retain the information better and enjoy the process of learning to write.

]]> 2021-08-11 13:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/htan0076/LiteracyResources/wish/1675418121 htan0076 https://padlet.com/htan0076/LiteracyResources/wish/1675419532 How to play:
1. Set the images on the cubes to your preference before telling your story.
2. Begin telling a story based on the images.

This resource allows adults to engage children in a playful manner by taking turns to tell stories based off visuals on a cube. This set of cubes can give you endless hours of fun coming up with potential goofy stories together with your child. It allows children to develop their expressive language, while enhancing listening skills as they make meaning of the stories shared. The skills involved in this game relates to the listening and speaking element under the National Literacy Learning Progression (ACARA, 2020). 

This method of developing children's language is supported by Bardige (2016), who encourages playful interactions between adults and children as they are able to learn and practice sophisticated sentence structures and develop skills to create fictional stories and construct reality based explanations (p.129) . 

]]> 2021-08-11 13:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/htan0076/LiteracyResources/wish/1675419532 htan0076 https://padlet.com/htan0076/LiteracyResources/wish/1675516858 How to play: The first person calls out a food on the table and you go around the table calling out words that rhymes with it. When unable to think of a rhyming word, that person calls out a new food on the table.


The game provides the opportunity for children to practice their rhyming skills in a safe space with their family members. Children will need to listen to the words and identify the sounds within that word. After which, they need to find a new word that has the same identified sound. This relates to the listening and phonological awareness under the the National Literacy Learning Progression (ACARA, 2020).

Phonological awareness is a foundation for language acquisition (Mullen, 2017). This means that children need to understand that words are made up of different sounds and phonemes. Through rhymes games, children become aware of the different sounds within spoken words.

]]> 2021-08-11 14:14:19 UTC https://padlet.com/htan0076/LiteracyResources/wish/1675516858 htan0076 https://padlet.com/htan0076/LiteracyResources/wish/1675532082 How to play: The first player writes a word and passes it on to the next play who will draw their impression of the word. Players will alternate writing and drawing their impression of the text from the previous player. 

This game is great for families who loves a great laugh. It encourages children to be as detailed in their drawings and explanations to relay the most accurate information. Through this game, children use decoding skills to understand the given text (written/drawn). Next, they learn to encoding the same information in a different form of text(drawn/written). At the same time, it reinforces handwriting skills through the writing or drawing process. This relates to the handwriting, spelling, creating texts and understanding texts elements under the National Literacy Learning Progression (ACARA, 2020).

According to Hamer and Lely (2019), literacy learning should be done in a creative manner so that learners do not get bored. When learning is presented in the form of play, it increases their interest and motivation to learn a particular skill (Hamer and Lely,2019). Besides developing the children's literacy skills, it develops their creative thinking as well. This game is able to integrate the use of various literacy skills and combine them into a fun game for children to practice and hone their skills in creating different forms of texts.]]> 2021-08-11 14:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/htan0076/LiteracyResources/wish/1675532082 htan0076 https://padlet.com/htan0076/LiteracyResources/wish/1682233768 2021-08-17 14:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/htan0076/LiteracyResources/wish/1682233768