{"id":4909,"date":"2020-09-18T17:11:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/web\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2020-09-18T17:11:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:11:16","slug":"esb-endorses-national-literacy-trusts-initiative-words-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/esb-endorses-national-literacy-trusts-initiative-words-life\/","title":{"rendered":"ESB endorses the National Literacy Trust&#8217;s Initiative &#8211; &#8216;Words for Life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESB wholeheartedly supports this initiative and congratulates all involved.<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #242424; cursor: text; font-family: 'Heebo',sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">&nbsp;<\/span>Our 12,000 learners who&nbsp;annually&nbsp;achieve an ESB speech qualification are asked to select a favourite book and prepare an excerpt to read, as part of their assessment as demonstrated below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MtZVPwDX54k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">&lt;span class=&#8221;mce_SELRES_start&#8221; style=&#8221;width: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block;&#8221; data-mce-type=&#8221;bookmark&#8221;&gt;\ufeff&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;span class=&#8221;mce_SELRES_start&#8221; style=&#8221;width: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block;&#8221; data-mce-type=&#8221;bookmark&#8221;&gt;\ufeff&lt;\/span&gt;<\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yiVjhvjx-NU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">&lt;span class=&#8221;mce_SELRES_start&#8221; style=&#8221;width: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block;&#8221; data-mce-type=&#8221;bookmark&#8221;&gt;\ufeff&lt;\/span&gt;<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Books open up new worlds, experiences and perspectives, as well as develop our vocabulary.&nbsp; As we ask our learners to read out loud from a favourite book and introduce why they chose it, ESB International also encourages the development of&nbsp;confidence in reading aloud, clear and audible speech,&nbsp;vocal variety, vocabulary, word sounds and blending and hopefully a pleasure in reading.<\/p>\n<p>If any schools would like to know more about our Speech qualifications and talk to one of our team please contact us on <u><a href=\"mailto:findoutmoreaboutESB@esbuk.org\">findoutmoreaboutESB@esbuk.org<\/a>.<\/u><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;re so excited to launch our new website for families! Packed with fun and easy activities to support children&#8217;s literacy and learning, it brings together the best of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FamilyZone?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FamilyZone<\/a>, Small Talk and our old <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WordsforLife?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WordsforLife<\/a> site all in one place: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LwtCITv9AP\">https:\/\/t.co\/LwtCITv9AP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e9KzIT5pNc\">pic.twitter.com\/e9KzIT5pNc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Literacy Trust (@Literacy_Trust) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Literacy_Trust\/status\/1305439912062263296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESB wholeheartedly supports this initiative and congratulates all involved.&nbsp;Our 12,000 learners who&nbsp;annually&nbsp;achieve an ESB speech qualification are asked to select a favourite book and prepare an excerpt to read, as part of their assessment as demonstrated below. &lt;span class=&#8221;mce_SELRES_start&#8221; style=&#8221;width: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block;&#8221; data-mce-type=&#8221;bookmark&#8221;&gt;\ufeff&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;span class=&#8221;mce_SELRES_start&#8221; style=&#8221;width: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}