'Every Child a Talker'
Advice and Ideas
Below are advice and ideas sheets, used by practitioners and in training courses. Feel free to use them yourselves.
Principles and Practice for developing communication
Developing language through small world play and stories
Sharing books
Word power developing vocabulary
Making the most of group time - general principles
Making the most of group time 2 - different types groups
Using sign language with babies and young children
10 Golden Rules for Adults
Sharing ideas through stories and small world play
More than counting: Language and Maths
Language, maths and stories
A report on a very successful loan scheme for families
A report on an exciting 'Rhyme day' event
Talking, reading and writing: how children learn to read, and how practitioners can help them
How a setting made big changes to storytime... with spectacular results!
Supporting wellbeing and developing language: helping children understand their day
Supporting wellbeing and developing language: positive beginnings and ends to sessions
Fun Practical Activities
"Find the Penguin"
"Swapsies"
Exciting ideas for your story boards from Chapel Street Nursery in Luton
Hide and Socks: An activity for language development and encouraging sharing
Bilingualism
Becoming Bilingual 1: young children learning more than one language
Becoming Bilingual 2: Helping young children to learn more than one language
Communication difficulties
Glue Ear 1: What is glue ear?
Glue Ear 2: Identifying glue ear and medical support
Glue Ear 3: The impact of glue ear and how we can help
Children who stammer
Supporting children who are quiet or lacking in confidence
Supporting children who are quiet or lacking in confidence 2: Making links with home
Thinking about communication
Having a chat
Spaghetti or pasta shells? Young children learning at home (and in Tesco)