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			Literacy Co-ordinators Handbook

Teachers' Notes and Activity Sheets

• Highlight the text level objectives for every pupil's book
• Provide practical support for shared and guided reading and writing sessions, focussing on text, sentence and word level objectives
• Identify NLS sight words in text
• SATs-style questions for Year 6
• Activity Sheets encourage children to revisit the text and develop a range of reading and writing skills

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Literacy Land: Literacy Co-ordinator's Handbook

Reception - Year 6/P1-7

FREE with Preview Packs

• Written by series editors Martin Coles and Christine Hall
• Covers the principles behind each strand - Story Street, Info Trail and Genre Range
• Offers practical advice on how to use the materials most effectively
• Facilitates effective curriculum management through correlation charts

Sample Page

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Enlarged Versions of selected Genre Range titles

A selection of Literacy Land titles are provided below for you to use, free of charge. These enlarged-text versions will help visually impaired children to learn to read.

Click on one of the covers to go to that particular book. The book will appear in a smaller window. To enlarge the text, click on the magnifying glass next to the page and a small window displaying just the text will appear. To make viewing as easy as possible, close this text window when you've finished reading that page.

A Better Letter	Rhyming Poems	Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Songs, Alphabet and Playground Rhymes		Tongue Twisters

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Medium-term Planning Sheets

These medium-term planning sheets will save you time preparing the Literacy Hour using Literacy Land books from Story Street, Genre Range and Info Trail.
There are individual planning sheets for years one to six, with each document split into terms.
Editable Microsoft Word versions of the documents are provided to allow you to tailor the chart to your particular class and schedule.
PDF versions are also provided. These will give a clearer lay-out to each page.

N.B. To open the PDF files you will need Acrobat Reader. If you don't already have this installed on your computer, you can download it for free at the Adobe website.

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NLS

Specifically written to match the genre and text types specified by the NLS, Literacy Land comprises a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction books for guided and independent reading, with large format books for whole-class work. The Teaching Notes have been designed to support text, sentence and word-level work.
FREE Literacy Co-ordinator's Handbook includes charts which correlate the books in Literacy Land to the NLS framework. Sent Free with Preview Packs, see How to Order.

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Scottish Curriculum

Compatible with the English 5-14 Guidelines, Literacy Land covers all main areas of the curriculum including: development of reading skills; knowledge about language, awareness and experience of different genre, reading for information and assessment. The non-fiction strand, Info Trail, also complements subjects covered in Environmental Studies lessons.
FREE Literacy Co-ordinator's Handbook includes advice for using the scheme with the 5-14 Guidelines. Sent Free with Preview Packs.

Genre Range Online Matching chart
Literacy Land Online Matching chart

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Companion website

Free online materials to complement Genre Range. Find out more here

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