The charity World Book Day® is holding its annual celebration today i.e. Thursday, 7th March right across the UK and Ireland.
World Book Day is very happy to announce that this year’s £1 books are available in braille, audio from RNIB and large print from CustomEyes at Guide Dogs.
World Book Day 2024 will celebrate that children are more likely to enjoy reading when their choices are championed and we make reading fun. Read Your Way calls on everyone to let go of pressure and expectations, giving children a choice – and a chance – to enjoy reading. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3s4lDln
Exciting events, activities and partnerships will encourage more children to enjoy reading, however they choose to.
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Finding interesting books for the struggling reader can sometimes be a challenge. I particularly love the books from Phonic Books at http://www.phonicbooks.co.uk as they provide interesting decodable books with workbooks to accompany the text. In the Catch up series each book introduces alternative graphemes for a target phoneme, has a page to explain new vocabulary and demonstrates how to chunk some of the trickier words into syllables. They seem to be a hit with the children too!
For those children who have strayed into the habit of guessing words, then reading pseudo words can help them to remember to use their decoding skills. A great game to help practise this skill is the Treasure or Trash/Real or Fake activity. These can be made so that the learner actually pops the word card or ping pong ball with the word written on into a basket labelled ‘Real’ or ‘Fake’/ ‘Treasure’ or ‘Trash’. Alternatively they can play the activity online if they go to the Phonics Play website at https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
An event SENDSTOCK 2024 from the popular and informative SEND Station looks interesting for tomorrow – it is SENDSTOCK – Assistive Technology Festival. There is so much supportive technology these days, but it is often difficult to know how to implement it. This event is going to draw on advice and guidance from professionals in the field and showcase how to implement Assistive Technology to achieve the most impact. This 3 hour online event would be useful to all those working with/or caring for learners in any educational or home setting i.e. parents, SENCos, teachers and Learning Support Assistants.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/send-stock-assistive-technology-festival-ticket
I hope everyone has had a great day if they have been celebrating World Book Day. I have certainly seen some great dressing up of children going past my house and pictures on facebook today.
We are nearly officially into spring, with the spring equinox looming, after what has seemed a long, wet winter in the UK. Hoping your weeks start to brighten up more and more. PJ
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