Description
News Talk for Teachers presents great ideas in a simple, easy to use and exciting format to reenergize news telling routines or plan an enviable news programme for the first time. Learn how a developmental perspective of news telling can build upon a child’s oral language skills so that they become competent in understanding and using the language of school. This builds a solid foundation for a child’s success right across the curriculum.
This CD provides creative and practical information for use by preschool and junior primary teachers about:
- A developmental perspective on news telling and links to the curriculum
- Examples and ideas for implementing successful news telling activities
- A range of teacher strategies
- How to be inclusive of children with communication difficulties
And includes:
- Many video clips of children and teachers demonstrating news
- Video clips demonstrating key teaching strategies and ideas on how to set up news
- Comments from teachers in the field
- Short interactive quizzes where teachers can test their understanding of the key concepts
- Voiceovers explaining key concepts
- Ready to use colourful visual strategies
- A package of useful handouts, including checklists for tracking progress
