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Ar Aghaidh Leat
A comprehensive reference book for planning and teaching Irish lessons in primary schools
Ar Aghaidh Leat is a bilingual reference book designed specifically for teachers in primary schools or parents supporting their child in developing the Irish language in the home. It provides an invaluable compilation of vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, writing and presentation skills to support the delivery of the Primary Language Curriculum.
It was developed by an experienced primary school teacher with the aim of enabling teachers to plan Irish lessons with proven teaching methodologies that reflect the diversity of their students' language experience.
Ar Aghaidh Leat aims to consolidate aspects of the three strands of the New Primary Language Curriculum. Within these strands are elements that describe essential language learning: developing communicative relationships through language, understanding the content and structure of language, and exploring and using language.
€29.70
Benefits of Ar Aghaidh Leat for planning and teaching primary-level Irish lessons
• One-stop-shop primary school teaching resource for all the vocabulary associated with the 10 themes of the Primary Language Curriculum
• All your grammar questions answered and supports the teaching of tricky grammatical points to students
• Guidance on teaching sentence structure and writing stories on a variety of events/ occasions
• Provides key terminology for oral presentations, debates, and written reports
• Includes games, activities and useful worksheets to support the learning of Irish
About the Author
Yvonne is a primary teacher who is passionate about the teaching of the Irish language. She has been teaching in Co. Tipperary for 15 years. Having tried various Irish programmes in her school, she found she was still sourcing material to plan and teach Irish lessons on a weekly basis. Yvonne felt that there was no resource in the market with all the vocabulary and grammar in one place for teachers to reference when delivering the Primary Language Curriculum.
During lockdown, Yvonne compiled all the vocabulary associated with the 10 themes in the Irish Curriculum along with all the grammar points teachers need to know to support their students. She continued collating comprehension, presentation and writing guides for teaching Irish. Yvonne planned Ar Aghaidh Leat to support a classroom of students with varied levels of Irish, thus helping teachers to differentiate lessons for varying student abilities.
IDEAL FOR:
• Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs)
• Teachers looking for a single resource to support differentiated instruction in the classroom
• Parents who wish to support their children with their written and oral language skills at home
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"Ar Aghaidh Leat is a sizeable book at 514 pages long. All your Irish planning could essentially be based on this book if needed. It’s created by a teacher with over fifteen years’ experience. Real teachers on the ground so to speak, just get it, they know exactly what is needed in the Irish primary classroom. The book includes all the grammar concepts we need to cover, and has a really helpful vocabulary section at the start of each chapter. It has everything you could ever need for teaching Irish! A huge well done to Dr Yvonne Fahy for creating this resource."
Valerie Mullen - @muinteoir_valerie
SET Teacher
“My favourite thing about Ar Aghaidh Leat is how easy it makes my Gaeilge planning and lessons. I am a NQT, teaching multigrade classes so it really helps to have the 'Torthaí Foghlama' and lists of vocab that I can pick and choose from to differentiate for each level.”
Lora Hewitt - @misslorakate
NQT 2021
“This timeless compilation will be an indispensable component of a teacher’s toolkit across their entire career.”
Aoife Mullen
INTO Official, InTouch magazine Review 2022
This book is FANTASTIC!!!! I bought it to try and help my son with Irish . He is in primary.. all I can say is, the fundamentals that kids do not know even up as far as junior cert are dealt with in this book. This should also be for secondary school use. I think you should be singing this book's name from the rooftops!
AnneMarie McHugh
Parent
This is an outstanding resource. It is a comprehensive overview of all of the themes, grammar and language skills pupils need in line with the Primary Language Curriculum. The layout of the book is very user friendly and the transfer of skills between English and Irish language learning is so practical. While aimed primarily at teachers in the senior classes this is definitely a resource every teacher would benefit from having on their desk.
Michelle Moriarty @Múinteoir Ní Mhuircheartaigh
6th class Teacher
