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The literacy shed

The literacy shed is a visual literacy resource with high quality images, films and animations to use in the primary classroom.

Structure and features

The website is organised into almost 40 ‘sheds’ each with a collection focused on a topic. For example, the ‘adventure shed’ has resources around these short films:

  • 'Taking flight'
  • 'Way back home'
  • 'Little boat'
  • '25 degrees 5 minutes'
  • 'Whistleless'
  • 'Home sweet home'
  • 'Catch a lot'
  • 'The lighthouse'
  • 'Ruin'
  • 'Spyfox'
  • 'Catch it'.

Each resource has teaching ideas and classroom material.

For students and families

Use these interesting resources to encourage learning at home.

For teachers

This is an excellent resource to engage students and enhance the teaching of reading and writing.

 

Teacher notes

Focus areas

  • Narrative
  • Visual literacy
  • Multimodal
  • Film
  • Image.

Curriculum links

  • Cross curricula.

Assessment

The visual resources include ideas for assessment.