Moving forward

In this section you have learned about the importance of creating a language- and print-rich classroom environment. You have thought about how your classroom can support children’s literacy skills by providing meaningful texts for children. This section has stressed the importance of collecting resources that will motivate children to learn. You have thought about the types of resources you can introduce into the classroom and how you could make them, or ask children to make them as part of the curriculum. You have had the chance to become familiar with the ASb website – a rich collection of stories in many different languages, for different levels of reader.

The rest of this course will focus on teaching and assessing early reading, and on how to make your teaching active and relevant to children’s lives using the tools that you have been introduced to so far. We start in Section 3, ‘Preparing to learn and teach early reading’ [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .