SALLEY
By Diana McQueen, Bob Boucher and Angela Hurd

Chosenby the Foundation Stage Forum as product of the month SALLEY is both aprevention and intervention programme designed to teach thephonological awareness skills that are fundamental to developingreading and spelling. SALLEY’s primary aim is to enable and enhance theacquisition of literacy skills (i.e. to make it easier for children tolearn to read and spell through promoting phonological awareness).

Trialledextensively in schools, SALLEY aims to arm children with tools thatthey can take with them throughout their future learning. The programmeteaches many core skills, including listening, attention, memory,sequencing and discrimination.

Most importantly, SALLEY makeslearning fun! It adopts a multi-sensory approach suitable for manylearning styles – with the use of whole-body movement, visual input andactive learning skills.

This comprehensive resource issuitable for WAVE 3, and is the ideal tool to prepare nursery-agedchildren for the demands of the Literacy Hour.

Stored in a bright sturdy satchel, the programme contains:

Manual – with detailed content of each daily lesson and instructions for delivery, plus photocopiable resources
Handbook– background information about the programme, including research andstatistics, plus many alternative uses for the programme DVD– examples of some of the programme tasks to give you a feel for whatis involved, the teaching style and progress. A recording of everydaysounds to practise listening and discrimination
Puppet – SALLEY Squirrel is a user-friendly, tactile glove puppet to capture the children’s attention .

Adopted by several LEAs, SALLEY has proved to have outstanding results in the classroom.

‘Thechildren are getting together as a group. They are all aware of theexpectations and the routine – children take turns.’ Teaching assistant

‘The reception classroom is now reflecting a lot of SALLEYideas. I have noticed changes in the children – good sitting, lookingand listening transferring into other areas such as story time.’Teacher

‘We had good feedback when we were inspected by OFSTED.’ Senco

‘Thechildren coming to me have retained the phonic knowledge taught fromSALLEY and are able to pick out individual letters in context.’Reception teacher

SALLEY

By Diana McQueen, Bob Boucher and Angela Hurd
£103.57 (includes lower rate vat @ £8.58)