Literacy and English
EducationCity.com’s literacy modules combine exciting on-line content with traditional pen and paper activities. Our resources will equip your young learners with the language skills they need to succeed in a world where text and speech are everywhere.
Our on-line literacy activities use interactive features, colourful graphics and engaging contexts to build students’ reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Our activities, paper worksheets and whole-class teaching tools enable teachers to deliver literacy lessons that spark a life-long passion for language and reading.
Early Years
For young readers, EducationCity.com’s Letters and Sounds area boosts basic decoding skills, helping youngsters get into reading quickly and easily. These phonics activities apply the latest thinking on how children learn to read, enabling students to get a head start and begin reading from the earliest possible stage.
Our Early Years activities use clear, exciting graphics, rooted in fun and familiar environments. Building on work done in class and at home, these activities help learners to relate and apply new language skills to their everyday lives.
Primary and transition
Our reading activities give students a solid foundation in the mechanics of reading, enabling them to find meaning and enjoyment in the written word. Activities help students build vocabulary and fluency, make sense of new words, and increase their confidence to explore new forms and genres. Students build their skills of literary appreciation and analysis by exploring short stories, novels, poetry and, of course, comics.
Many of our writing activities provide students with the essential building blocks of effective written communication: sound spelling, grammar, and punctuation skills. Other activities teach creative writing techniques that develop students’ personal flair and encourage articulate self-expression.
Our speaking activities build understanding of effective oral communication and encourage correct grammar and speech conventions in a fun and engaging way. Budding speakers gain confidence in their use of speech and learn to adapt to different situations and purposes, thinking about audience and making choices in the language, tone and expression they use.
Our listening activities provide practical strategies for becoming an effective listener – a vital skill in both academic and personal settings. Young listeners learn how to identify key information, spot supporting details, maintain concentration and show understanding of what they’ve heard.
At the forefront of up and coming learning technologies, our literacy Topic Tools area provides a range of age-appropriate whiteboard resources for classrooms. Using these tools, teachers can create and add their own content, or choose from our banks of ready-to-use, cross-curricular text.
From age 4 and up, EducationCity.com’s literacy modules enable students to make sense of the English language in all its forms. With the help of our teaching and learning resources, students become effective communicators who use the spoken and written word for both personal enjoyment and academic success.
