Writing is an integral part of our lives. For school aged children, writing isn’t just confined to the subject of English either. It is integrated into all parts of their education. In Mathematics you need to be able to write Read More …
Research shows that reading to young children helps to improve literacy and communication skills. But does it matter who does the reading? Any reading is better than no reading, but it may be that not all reading is created equal! Read More …
Writing using descriptive details In our last blog Building Mind Maps for Descriptive Writing we explored a descriptive writing class for our younger students. In this blog How to Use More Descriptive Details in Your Writing we will focus on our Read More …
This week’s blog explores a recent Leap into Literacy class Building Mind Maps for Descriptive Writing and focuses on the modified class for our younger students in Years 1-2. Before we delve into the lesson, let’s remember what is so Read More …
Leap into Literacy is thrilled to be opening a new centre in Balmain and would like to invite you to help us celebrate by coming to our Open Day! Balmain Centre Open Day Saturday July 21, 2018 10am-2pm Suite 2/314-322 Read More …
Not a fan of home readers? Read on as Allison Greenland explains in this recent interview with Essential Kids the reason those readers can appear so dull. Here is the article with the link to the original at the bottom. Read More …
Developing characters using Artemis Fowl In week six our primary students in years 3-6 explored elements of fantasy writing and understanding characterisation using the book Artemis Fowl by Eion Colfer. Fantasy is an element of fiction that deals with things Read More …
A few weeks ago, we explored alliteration with our students. First we asked the students if they had heard of alliteration and explained that it is a literary device in which the author uses the same sound at the Read More …
Getting to know…Allison Greenland of Leap Into Literacy: An interview with Inner West Mums, Sydney found here: Getting to know… Allison Greenland of Leap Into Literacy Tell us about yourself I’m from Atlanta, Georgia in the USA and my husband Read More …
