Growing Words®
For Early Childhood Educators
Growing Words® Workshop
An Australian Professional Learning Experience for Early Childhood Educators to help children communicate with confidence so that they are ready for school.
- Set up interactions for success in communication
- Foster a sense of belonging for children who find social participation difficult because of communication difficulties
- Use evidence-based techniques that strengthen pre-literacy success
- Reduce frustration levels of children who find it difficult to be understood
Growing Words® Package - 7 modules
An Australian Professional Learning Experience for Early Childhood Educators to help children communicate with confidence so that they are ready for school.
- Set up interactions for success in communication
- Foster a sense of belonging for children who find social participation difficult because of communication difficulties
- Use evidence-based techniques that strengthen pre-literacy success
- Reduce frustration levels of children who find it difficult to be understood
Speech Sounds
- Learn how to support all children's speech sound development
- Use simple ways to show and tell how to make speech sounds
- Easy-to-implement techniques speech therapists use to teach children sounds
- Add more opportunities for children's speech development into your day without any extra prep!
Learning to Listen & Understand
- Understand hearing health and its connection to communication
- Learn how to speak so children listen
- The not-so-secret way to help children follow directions
Literacy Groundwork
- Fresh inspiration for pre-literacy skills that set children up for success in the classroom
- Culturally responsive ways of introducing literacy that bridges home and school languages
- Quick, simple and evidence based activities you can implement in seconds
Telling My Story
- Know why oral storytelling is vital for literacy success at school
- Using stories to build connection with self, others, community and culture
- Supporting culturally sensitive ways of storytelling
- You'll find a framework for story time in your classroom
Putting Ideas and Thoughts into Words
- No prep, evidence-based strategies to improve expressive skills
- Ideas to help children talk with small and large groups
- Culturally safe, responsive and inclusive methods to support language development
Stringing Sentences Together
- Know why some children sound 'younger' when they speak
- How to keep the conversation going when sentences seem all jumbled up
- 5 steps to stringing sentences together you can use anytime, anywhere with your kindy students
- Setting up situations for sentence-making success
Vocabulary
- Understand the link between a child's vocabulary and learning to read and write
- Simple ways to increase children's vocabulary in activities you are already doing at kindy
- Free learning plan and ready-to-go practical activities
In Person
Brisbane City – venue TBC
Friday 5th of May
9am-3pm AEST
Brisbane City – venue TBC
Monday 4th of September
9am-3pm AEST
