LAUNCH INTO LITERACY - Foundation Book

LAUNCH INTO LITERACYLaunch into Literacy is structured five-bookcourse for 6-11 year olds. The course presents a range of text for children to study as models for their own writing, and contextualized activities at text, sentence and worl level. It is ideally suited for use in literacy lessons with whole class and group activities, and covers the requirement of the National Curruculum, the National Literacy Strategy, and the Scottish English Language 5-14 guidelinesTHE FOUNDATION BOOK OFFERS:-four planned units of work, each focused on one text type or genre: writing to instruct, to entertain, to express, and to report, giving pupils a through introduction to the way different genres work-study of exampler text with activities toi teach the language knowledge and skills needed to write a final text of the same genre.-focused language activities involving comprehension, composition, grammar, pronunciation, and word work in each unit.-a simple glossary of language terms.