Creativity in Literacy

This book contains colourful ideas for delivering a creative curriculum through literacy.

Useful for ages 5-11 years, this is a new title from the best-selling "World of Display" series.

This book provides teachers with fresh ideas for delivering exciting literacy lessons using popular fiction and non-fiction texts.

The book is written to compliment the revised literacy framework, with themes including speaking, listening, reading and writing activities - all key focus areas for teachers at the moment.

The themes are designed as complete topics, to be used across a number of literacy lessons and then extended into a variety of areas of the curriculum through fun, practical activities.

Display ideas are given in each theme.This book is a valuable resource for literacy co-ordinators aiming to improve creativity and cross-curricular planning in their schools. This book contains: 17 exciting themes presenting ways for delivering a creative curriculum through a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts; a wealth of literacy ideas covering a variety of objectives from the revised primary literay framework; ideas for cross-curricular activities with links to Maths, Science, History, Art, Design and Technology and more.

Example themes include: Favourite Stories, Dinosaurs, Weather, Ancient Eygpt and My locality.

Each theme contains: a list of fictions or non fiction textsWhole class starting points; a variety of display ideas; practical literacy activities; and, cross-curriculum links.