Library Thursdays: National Literacy and Numeracy Week

Although we've blogged on literacy resources previously, there are a few more things to highlight this National Literacy and Numeracy Week.

• There are many useful links on the NL&N Week website for kids here and others here and many more.
• DownsEd has just released the next step in the See and Learn program--First Sentences.
• A good site for online literacy material for older beginning readers is Tar Heel Reader.
• NSW's Department of Education's Count Me in Too website has many good online games on basic maths concepts that would suit students with Down syndrome.
• In our library, we have Teaching Maths to People with Down syndrome and other hands on learners by Deanna Horstmeier (Books 1 & 2) which have many practical suggestions for numeracy. Also Practical Teaching strategies in numeracy for children with learning difficulties by John Munro.(Set of 5 guides from Prenumber to Numbers to One Hundred)
• Other library numeracy resources can be found in the library listings.
• To help with Money Management, is a new book from Woodbine House, Managing my money: Banking and budgeting basics by Natalie Hale which will be reviewed next week.

Many more general resources to help with literacy and numeracy can be found at the Jill Sherlock Memorial Library.

If you'd like to borrow any literacy or numeracy resources from our library or anything else, just call or email.