Course | Taking Literacy Outdoors: Primary for Individual Users

Price

£30 GBP

Taking Literacy Outdoors: Primary is an online course that will introduce you to simple and effective ways to take literacy lessons outside. Using the school grounds, you will discover how to engage children in reading, writing, and speaking outdoors before putting what you’ve learned into practice.

About This Course

For centuries, nature has served as inspiration for many of our greatest writers. Similarly, taking literacy lessons outdoors can add a deeper level to children’s learning, encouraging imagination and creativity whilst also developing key communication skills and vocabulary.

By putting the multisensory nature of the outdoor classroom to use, you can prompt the formulation of richer ideas and responses in your pupils, whether through speaking or writing.

Taking Literacy Outdoors: Primary will introduce you to new ideas, research, and practice to help develop your confidence in an outdoor learning setting.
During this online course, you will:
Gain an understanding of the benefits of taking literacy outdoors
Discover how to deliver high-quality outdoor literacy lessons
Trial some LtL-approved activities in your setting

Course Curriculum

Preparing the Ground: Sowing the Seed

Sowing the seed: Your learning
Sowing the seed: Welcome from Charly Crump

Preparing the Ground: Nurturing the Seed

Nurturing the seed: Your learning outcomes

Encouraging Shoots

Encouraging shoots: Reflection
Encouraging shoots: Introducing you to new content
Encouraging shoots: The why of taking literacy outdoors
Encouraging shoots: The how of teaching literacy outdoors
Encouraging shoots: Barriers to taking literacy outdoors
Encouraging shoots: Your outdoor toolkit
Encouraging shoots: Activities to try out
Encouraging shoots: Sensory inspiration
Encouraging shoots: Outdoor literacy in action
Further reading: Literacy and nature - John Muir Trust
Further reading: I am the seed that grew the tree - Poetry resource pack
Additional resource: Literacy in the outdoors webinar

Flowering

Flowering: Taking new learning in your setting

Sowing New Seeds

Sowing new seeds: Final reflection
Sowing new seeds: End of topic quiz
Sowing new seeds: Assignment
Before you go