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First Steps is a research-based literacy resource offers teachers an accurate means of assessing and monitoring children’s competencies and progress in reading, writing, spelling and oral language. It then links this assessment to appropriate classroom-based activities and strategies.

We have created a number of video tutorials which cover areas such as Shared Writing, Analysis of Text, Guided reading etc. Click the icon to the right to view these.

WRITING
General resources	Report writing	Expository writing
Steps to teaching a genre Familiarisation with a text Introducing a writing bag Instructional texts Class profile sheet Sample Whole School Pan Writing Genres Generic resources on writing Some useful websites to support First Steps 7 Steps to Teaching a Genre Sample 2 Year Plan for First Step Steps Writing	Report writing framework	Exposition writing framework Walking debates Discussion on bedtime
	Recount writing	Explanation writing
	Recount writing framework: Infants Recount writing activities	Explanation writing framework Explanation writing topic cards Explanation writing activities
	Narrative writing	Procedural writing
	Narrative writing activities Story Sacks	Procedural writing activities

READING
General resources	Developing comprehension through explicit teaching	Planning for implementation
Developing fluency through Readers' Theatre Unit of work focusing on Readers' Theatre Developing reading through poetry Unit of work based on "Whatever Next!" by Jill Murphy Generic resources on reading First Steps Reading resource: At-a-glance	How to effectively teach comprehension strategies: an introduction Unit of work focusing on strategy of connecting: infant classes Unit of work focusing on the strategy of scanning: middle classes Unit of work focusing on the strategy of summarising and paraphrasing: senior classes Comprehension strategies: suggested language Mapping FSR strategies on the re-presented English Curriculum: draft	Sample First Steps Reading Plan: one term Sample Term First Steps Reading Plan: yearly Planning to implement FSR substrand: Processes and Strategies Linking the English Curriculum to the First Steps Readingresource
INTEGRATION
Explanation genre: integrated sample Recount genre: integrated sample Procedure genre: integrated sample Report genre: integrated sample Narrative genre: integrated sample Exposition genre: integrated sample	How to get started with First Steps Speaking and Listening What to teach in First Steps How to teach First Steps

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