How the project fits with the English National Curriculum

This brief paper describes the background to the literacy activities designed in our project and then considers its fit with the National Curriculum. The main assumption behind the idea of setting up the family-school partnership is that hearing and deaf children must reach similar aims in literacy; so it is possible to start the children‟s learning in the classroom with the same activities. However, deaf children in mainstream schools often require extra support and need to learn more than the hearing children from the same activities.