Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
Theme tune by David Vesey
On this week's programme I continue my conversation on teaching literacy in the early years with Dr. Tara Concannon-Gibney from Dublin City University. The occasion was to mark the publication by Routledge of Tara's book Teaching Essential Literacy Skills in the Early Years Classroom: A Guide for Students and Teachers. Among the topics we discuss on this week's programme are:
- Her definition of literacy
- Digital texts and literacy
- Why some children struggle with reading
- How parents can help their child to read
- How a parent should react to a child reading when the child comes to a word that is not known
- Advice for choosing a book for a child
- The benefits of repetitive reading of texts
- Poetry and literacy skills
- How she became interested in the area of literacy
- How she went about writing the book
In the course of our interview Tara mentioned texts by the following writers: Mem Fox, Georgia Heard, Lucy Calkins, Oliver Jeffers, Hervé Tullet, and Julia Donaldson.
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