Articles by tag: literacy

How schools can use their Pupil Premium budgets to boost reading comprehension

We know that school leaders and teaching staff are passionate about providing every pupil with the support and resources they need to succeed academically and...

Issue 24, Page 14-15: Right from the Start

Juliet Leonard, speech and language therapist, explains why boldly returning to early phonological awareness teaching impacts positively on children with delayed literacy skills. Learning to read...

Issue 23, Page 12-13: Talking the write way

"In England in 2015, one child in five was reported to be leaving primary school unable to read well, rising to one in three among...

Issue 19, Page 10-11: Making the Link from Literacy to Oral Language

Good literacy skills are vital for children to access learning and to navigate work and life as adults. It is easy to see why the...

Issue 15, Page 15-19: Literacy Difficulties? It could be SLCN

SLCN is the most common primary area of need for pupils with SEN at 23%. However, when it comes to getting support through an EHCP,...

Why improving speech, language and communication skills must be part of the Government’s Levelling Up agenda

The Government's education white paper Opportunity for All was released on 28th March 2022. It restated the announcement (originally made in February, as part of...

You can’t read hieroglyphics if you don’t understand Egyptian!

Over the Christmas holidays, during the flurry of parcels being delivered to my house, I received a parcel that I had not ordered myself that...

The Link Special Edition, Page 8: 5 Tips to Boost Literacy

Early speech and language skills are the most significant predictor of a child’s later literacy skills. Our spoken language skills are fundamental underpinnings of literacy...

What do we mean by speech and language?

Here at Speech Link Multimedia Ltd our focus is good communication and we are mindful that sometimes speech and language therapists can be guilty of...

Building a Solid Foundation for Literacy

Literacy, while a seemingly innocuous (although incredibly important) topic, stirs up fierce debate across the globe when it comes to which approach we should be...