Welcome to JCSP Literacy and Numeracy

Welcome to the new look JCSP Literacy and Numeracy website. We hope that you will find it interesting and useful. You will find resources and materials that you may find useful along with research. There is also a log-in area where you will be able to communicate with other teachers and download resources.

Welcome to the JCSP Literacy and Numeracy Strategy

The Junior Certificate School Programme Literacy and Numeracy Strategy established under the DEIS Action Plan promotes a whole school approach to literacy and numeracy development at junior cycle. Central to this strategy is the belief that all teachers can support literacy development. Within the strategy schools are encouraged to put in place a literacy development plan which encompasses short term interventions with targeted students fostering a reading culture throughout the school.   

The JCSP literacy strategy encourages schools to involve all subject teachers in adopting specific techniques in teaching the literacy and numeracy demands of their subject area. It allows for subject specific learning to take place more effectively while at the same time supporting literacy and numeracy improvement. When several teachers use these strategies the students not only master subject content but also develop the skills necessary to become independent learners, supported also by our JCSP Demonstration Library Project.

There are three layers to the literacy strategy:- 

• classroom strategies focusing on fluency, vocabulary building and comprehension building as well as listening, oracy and writing skills development;
• short  term targeted interventions;
• whole school approach within the context of access to reading materials.  

   

We hope that you will find all kinds of useful resources and advice to support your teaching here in this website. Click on the links for our teacher resource book 'Between the Lines' and 'Time to Read'.  A wide range of materials is also available from the NCCA to support you in the consultation in relation to Junior Cycle developments, for further information please click here.