Making it REAL (Raising Early Achievement in Literacy) is an Early Years programme that works with practitioners to support children’s early literacy and development.
The programme equips practitioners to build parents’ knowledge and confidence so that they can help their children with reading and writing and create a positive early home learning environment.
What is the REAL approach?
Making it REAL is inspired by and draws evidence from the original REAL project delivered by Professors Cathy Nutbrown and Peter Hannon at the University of Sheffield.
REAL uses a framework called ‘ORIM’ (Opportunities, Recognition, Interaction and Model), which is based on the idea that there are four main ways in which parents can help their children’s literacy development.
Making it REAL 1-Day training will:
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Equip you to understand how the home learning environment contributes to children’s literacy and communication skills.
- Identify practical ways you can support children and families across four strands of literacy: environmental print, songs and rhymes, books, and mark making.
- Make you comfortable using and sharing the ORIM framework to support parents and their children’s literacy development.
- Equip you to build parents’ knowledge and confidence so that they can help their children with reading and writing.