Looking After Literacy: A Whole Child Approach to Effective Literacy Interventions

Teachers are under pressure to find personalised and distinctive approaches to support children who struggle with literacy. Support is available for those who have specific needs, but not for children with needs that are harder to identify. This book draws on the latest research to offer guidance in this area:

• It supports teachers to consider the whole child when exploring options for interventions and strategies to help children overcome their individual challenges.
• It examines the many factors that can contribute to literacy difficulties and highlights the importance of understanding the wider context when considering them.

This is a practical handbook for primary literacy interventions as it gives detailed guidance on how to make literacy interventions work for all children, every day.

Table of Contents

The significance of phonics for ‘catching up’ with reading

Digital stories and becoming someone different

Me, myself, I: using drama to explore self in primary school

The reading and writing environment: literacy grounded in an ethic of care

Starting early – translating literacy into early years interventions

A world full of colours and sounds: using adjectives and adverbs in

The physicality of writing and speaking

Culture and literacy: storying capital and children’s lives

Communication and spoken word

Using multilingual narratives to explore loss and grief

The deliciousness of reading