Communication, language, and literacy

Audience

Practitioners working with families with children from two to five years old.

Aims

• Help practitioners work with parents to equip them with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to support the creation of positive home learning environments.
• Focus on meaningful communication and literacy that children make sense of and enjoy, as part of their everyday lives.
• Boost children's communication, language and early literacy development.
• Be fun, engaging, inclusive and accessible for all, through a low or no-cost approach.
• Enable practitioners to gain an understanding of the REAL approach, identify ways to incorporate it into everyday practice, and share it with families, thereby building confidence and knowledge to support the home learning environment.
• Develop a multi-agency approach to supporting parents in developing their home learning environments, with a specific focus on communication, language, and literacy.

Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.

Cost details

Delegates will receive a Making it REAL course booklet.

Introduction to Making it REAL network meetings 

Once you have completed the Introduction to Making it REAL training, we welcome you to join our free network meetings. We offer two network meetings across the academic year, autumn, and summer. These informal meetings provide an opportunity to share ideas, discuss practice and ask questions. Please do book onto one or more of these online network meetings.

Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.

Audience

This course is designed for family-facing early years practitioners who work with young children from birth to five, including childminders, Child and Family Centre staff, early years setting practitioners, early years teachers, teaching assistants, and community groups.

Aims

This one-day interactive course focuses on creating communication-supportive environments to promote all children’s speech, language, and communication skills, including those with speech and language challenges. During this course, you will:

• Consider the skills underpinning communication and language.
• Look at how children develop communication skills at home and in educational settings.
• Explore a range of strategies that will help children to access the areas of learning and development in the early years foundation stage curriculum.
• Think about how to support children who have speech and language challenges.

Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.

Cost details

* Cambridgeshire Essentials

Audience

This course is designed for family-facing early years practitioners who work with children from birth to five, including childminders, Child and Family Centre staff, early years setting practitioners, early years teachers, teaching assistants and community groups who want to increase their knowledge of how to support young children’s early communication, language and literacy development.

Aims

This two-part interactive course focuses on how we can become increasingly responsive to young children's needs in our interactions with them, to support their language acquisition. This course will support delegates to develop their understanding of:

• How our communication with children impacts them.
• Why quality interactions matter.
• Strategies to support effective interactions.
• Why these strategies help support children's communication and language development.
• How the use of expansions and extensions can help you build on children's existing knowledge.

Additional information

Delegates will be expected to participate in interactive activities with other delegates and share their experiences of these activities.

The course, held in Wisbech, is free to family-facing early years practitioners who work with young children from birth to five, including childminders, setting practitioners, teachers, teaching assistants, Child and Family Centre staff, and community groups from the area.*

Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.

Cost details