This book is about raising standards in literacy for children with dyslexia by putting the child at the centre of everything you do, focusing on wellbeing, and recognising the role that adults have to play in ensuring all children reach their potential. Concentrating on children in primary schools and early years settings the book looks at:
- Early intervention
- Pupil voice
- Working as a team
- New literacies
- Child-centred identification, assessment and provision
- Challenges for the inclusive school.
Suitable for all those working with children with dyslexia this book contains strategies that can be easily adopted to academically and emotionally benefit the children you are working with.
Cuprins
SECTION 1: NEW HORIZONS FOR PUPILS WITH DYSLEXIA
Chapter 1: Changing experiences in childhood: challenges for the 21st Century, Sean Mac Blain
Chapter 2: Child-centred literacy pathways: pupils’ perspectives, Louise Long
Chapter 3: Meeting the needs of children with dyslexia and developmental literacy difficulties: holistic approaches, Sean Mac Blain
SECTION 2: BUILDING CAPACITY TO RAISE LITERACY STANDARDS FOR CHILDREN WITH DYSLEXIA AND DEVELOPMENTAL LITERACY DIFFICULTIES
Chapter 4: Child-centred approaches to the identification and assessment of dyslexia and developmental literacy difficulties, Sean Mac Blain and Louise Long
Chapter 5: Raising literacy standards: perspectives on best practice, Sean Mac Blain, Louise Long and Jill Dunn
Chapter 6: Advancing inclusive cultures for literacy learning in the mainstream primary school, Louise Long
SECTION 3: LITERACY IN CONTEMPORARY SETTINGS
Chapter 7: New literacies in the classroom: forging culturally responsive curricula, Jill Dunn
Contemporary Challenges: Looking to the Future, Sean Mac Blain and Jill Dunn
Despre autor
Jill Dunn is a senior lecturer in Stranmillis University College, Belfast. She was a primary school teacher working in Foundation Stage and Key Stage One classrooms before moving into teacher education. Jill teaches widely across the BEd and PGCE Early Years programmes. However, her main interests lie in the teaching of literacy in the early years. Jill has just completed her Ed D in 2013 and her dissertation focused on children’s views on using popular culture to teach writing. She has been involved in a number of funded research projects on literacy and is currently involved in an evaluation of i Pads in the Early Years. Jill lives in Lisburn, Northern Ireland with her husband Ian and two daughters Holly and Katy.