Literacy Time PLUS Ages 5 to 7: Literacy Time PLUS Ages 5 to 7 July 2008

Years 1 and 2, JULY 2008

The latest issue of LITERACY TIME PLUS on the theme of Dinosaurs includes:

• A Dinosaur’s Day – An interactive animated tale mixing fact and fiction
• The Troodon – Read the information about the Troodon then drag and drop the labels to identify the dinosaur body parts
• Life in a dinosaur nest – A flow diagram with simple captions showing the life cycle of a dinosaur nest
• Dinosaur poem – ‘Who can tell?’ by Judith Nicholls
• Dinosaur Body Bits – Simple magazine-style information text complete with contents page
• ‘Dinosaur Alphabet’ by Peter Riley – A rhyming A to Z guide to dinosaur names

These are accompanied by a 24-page magazine which includes: * Teachers’ Notes and photocopiable worksheets * Teachers’ planning charts * Book news, offers and events * Feature article – Andrew Thraves looks at a new scheme which lists children’s books by difficulty level

Next issue September 2008 (published in September):

• Graphemes Game – with a superhero theme – help the heroes pick up the stolen gems and put them in the bag with the correct grapheme
• A real-life hero – An information text about a real-life hero from the East Anglia Air Ambulance team
• Sleeping Beauty – A simple retelling of this classic fairy tale with patterned and repetitive language
• Performance Poetry – Film of a whole-school performance by our poet-in-residence, Paul Cookson
• Real or Imaginary? – Drag Sort the real from the imaginary heroes in this interactive game