Jane Farrall Consulting - Page 5 - Literacy, AAC & Assistive Technology

Online Course: Introduction to Comprehensive Literacy Instruction for students with CCN

Aug 6, 202014 Comments

I am absolutely delighted to say that I have just published my first online course! It's been a labour of love - and I have a huge sense of achievement for completing it!! I've had a number of requests recently for more online learning options - and I've also had a number of requests for

Hello Book - in Dutch and Spanish

Apr 26, 2020

A few weeks ago I shared a week of emergent literacy planning on the topic of greetings, using a book I wrote called “Hello”. As I've mentioned before, I had a request from the fabulous Violeta for a PowerPoint version that she could translate into Dutch. Not only has she translated it but she has

Zombies and Independent Reading

Apr 19, 20208 Comments

Over the last few years, I have come across a bunch of students who are highly motivated and interested in anything to do with Zombies! Now, Zombies are not something I know a lot about... but what I do know is that providing independent and/or shared reading choices in a student's area(s) of interest is

Emergent Literacy Planning

Apr 17, 20202 Comments

Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on more emergent literacy planning for teachers, schools and parents to use. Today I have put the first three packs up on my online store at www.comprehensiveliteracy.com under emergent literacy planning. The three new packs are on the topics of feelings, preferences and descriptions. Each

Hello Book in PowerPoint

Apr 16, 20205 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I shared a week of emergent literacy planning on the topic of greetings, using a book I wrote called "Hello". After downloading and using the planning, a couple of fabulous parents had requests. One of them (Hi Jules) wanted an editable version of the high contrast book that she could

Making a Portable Word Wall

Apr 14, 2020

Portable word walls are an important part of our toolkit when working with transitional and conventional literacy learners. I've written a number of posts about how to setup a word wall and how we use them - in both the working with words block and in writing. After my recent post about Using the Word

Using the Word Wall in Writing

Apr 13, 2020

For conventional (and transitional) students, we need to make sure they can write words which aren't phonetically predictable - and that they can read and write high frequency words more or less instantly. The word wall activities we do in the working with words block are aimed at converting high frequency words and word family

Shared Reading - Keep the Interaction Going!

Apr 5, 20202 Comments

Nearly 5 years ago I wrote a blog post called "Shared Reading: Focus on Interaction". Shared reading is when we read a book interactively with someone else - and the focus during the book reading is on that interaction. As you are aware, there are a lot of electronic resources being shared at the moment,

Hello! Emergent literacy planning

Apr 4, 20201 Comment

Hello Book Regular Contrast I know lots of teachers and parents are working on home schooling plans currently. This week I've been spending time tidying up some of my resources to share - and one I have just finished is a week of planning for working on emergent literacy. The planning centers around the book