Sounds and Symbols™

Tag: Elgin

  • Presentation to Adult Literacy tutors in Elgin.

    Presentation to Adult Literacy tutors in Elgin – Adult Literacy through Music.  Music can assist literacy development for all ages and stages.  Music helps to embed information, it helps to consolidate memory, offers prompts to learn sequences and can be used to extend vocabulary and grammar comprehension.

    Everyone sang wholeheartedly – it was great fun!  Tutors were also able to consider the role of rhyming slang, raps, tongue twisters, using foreign languages and the use of non-verbal language to support literacy learning.

    This was followed by an interested talk on Toe By Toe.

  • Presentation to groups of childcare students at Moray College, Elgin.

    Presentation to groups of childcare students at Moray College, Elgin.  They were studying National and Higher National courses.  Susan and Lindsay kindly lent me their students for the morning.  The students enjoyed a presentation, singing, musical stories and lots of activities!  They made finger mice, learned how to encourage fine motor skill development and bi-lateral co-ordination using Sounds and Symbols bricks, as well as build language skills – all vital to literacy proficiency! 

    Sounds and Symbols offers support to all 8 curricular areas and supports the Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland as well as the new EYFS (2012) National Curriculum.