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

Garden colours – A vocabulary game poster by Judith Mason where the children use the word and picture cues to describe what they see
The Power of Colour – An interactive resource exploring the power of colour in the visual image – including a demo of Film Education’s Picturacy package
The Paint Factory – A great interactive resource to help develop colour vocabulary
It’s a colourful world – Poems on a colour theme by poets including Christina Rossetti and Berlie Doherty
The First Rainbow – A lovely retelling of a North American folk tale by Brenda Williams
Where does light come from? – A great resource to use in the science lesson, this explains the different sources of light

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 – ‘In the Picture’ by Susan Clow.

Next issue January 2009 (published in January):

Texts and resources on a Under water theme – Including a punctuation game ‘Swim around sentences’
Interactive resources – How to set up an experiment PLUS the second part in our Performance Poetry workshop with Paul Cookson
Tell me a story – Choose a setting, situation and characters to develop oral story telling
Fantasy story – Orlando, the clumsy octopus