BBC Skillswise has a range of tips for teaching literacy and numeracy skills
The BBC Skillswise website has lots of ideas for teaching literacy and numeracy skills.
Numeracy Skills
Calculating mean temperature (Numeracy curriculum – HD1/L1.4) Choose your town and select a full five day weather forecast. Use the data to calculate the mean temperature.
Whole numbers
What are numbers, Addition and subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Ratio and proportion
Fractions, decimals and percentages
Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Comparing all three
Measuring
Using money, Time and date, Length and distance, Weight, Capacity, Perimeters, Area and volume, Temperature
Shape and space
2D shapes, 3D shapes, Moving shapes
Handling data
Interpreting data, Collecting and displaying data, Numerical analysis, Probability
Literacy Skills
Food for thought (Literacy curriculum – Rs/L1.1) Select your favourite recipes from the Food website and print them out. Highlight imperatives, adverbs and adverbial phrases in a recipe and discuss their effect.
Grammar
Sentence basics, Making more interesting sentences, Punctuation, Getting the right tense, Types of text
Reading
Types of text, Techniques for better reading, Spelling, Sounds and spelling Recognising words, Plurals, Word building, Spelling rules, Vocabulary, Word recognition, Looking up words, Types of words, More interesting words
Listening
Listening for specific information, Showing that you understand
Writing
Before you start, Getting it right
