Oxford International Early Years: The Glitterlings: Teacher Resource Book

Activity Book

Author/s: Eithne Gallagher and Miranda Walker

Language and literacy learning using illustration and story.

Exciting stories with fun characters that students will get to know and love. 

Inter lingual teaching and learning methodology enhances English language learning for young children.

Home - school learning link through the pic-story & audio book to take home promotes parental engagement. 

Features:

• Meets the needs of both ESL and E1L students who are emergent bilinguals within English medium Early Years settings.
• Offers a match to the most popular, robust and respected Early Years framework around the world (EYFS).
• Assumes lack of specialist EY training for teachers and the challenge of delivering an English literacy programme when in many cases English isn't their first language. Offers guidance and classroom management advice on EYFS and Inter lingual teaching.
• Complements the wide range of OUP phonically decodable books, first readers and early learning reading resources
• Offers consistency and continuity up through to the first years of primary school because of its connection to Oxford International Primary English Levels 1 - 6
• Gives the teacher the tools for observation and assessment of student learning and tracking progress over the year in readiness for Primary school.
• Provides a simple but strong connection between student, teacher and parent in a 'home-school learning link'.
• Addresses the reality of the multilingual child and their families. Children and carers can use the 'take home' story to add in simple words and phrases of the child's mother tongue or second language alongside the English text.