Literacy at Northland Kindergarten

One question families often ask us is how literacy learning is deliberately planned for - for each and every child in an everyday kindergarten setting. The answer to this is we weave it throughout the learning environment so we are challenging them to use it while having fun, and use it for purposes important to them. We use their interests to add literacy challenge to their investigations and support them to feel successful and satisfied as they use the tools of communication. Here is a clip ( thanks James' family for letting us use it yet again) that we have been asked for to look at this topic... it's on the association website an was used for the Festival of Education sponsored by the Ministry earlier. It's aimed at teachers, so sorry for lots of words... but you'll get the idea of how we take a talent and keep on throwing new opportunities for it to develop in a lot of different curriculum areas......