Foundations Of Literacy
OVERVIEW:
Do you want to pick out potential struggling readers already in the EYFS?
Do you want to make sure you are targeting the right area for interventions for later struggling readers?
This course will help you to identify those children using material already available in your school and we show you exactly how you can make your own assessment material and identify the children who need support as well as providing very clear guidance of how to support them once identified.
Early Phonological Awareness (PA) is one of the key building blocks for developing later reading skills and Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) is also one of the areas that can be picked up very early in children to identify those who are likely to struggle with learning to read effectively.
The two areas are related to different areas of reading development; PA is highly linked with Phonic skills and RAN is more linked to reading fluency and speed. If a child has difficulties in both of these areas, known as having ‘double deficit’ they are at a very high risk for more persistent reading difficulties such as dyslexia and these are early signs that can be picked up in order to put interventions in place as soon as possible.
The overall purpose of the ‘Foundations of Literacy Development’ course to increase awareness of the importance of both Phonological Awareness (PA) and Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) as foundations of early literacy development and help staff to identify the children that may require early additional input or, if older struggling readers, may need input into these foundation areas in order to make phonics interventions more effective..