Communication, language, and literacy

Audience

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

Aims

• Help practitioners to work with parents to give them knowledge, skills and confidence to support them in creating 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 understanding of the REAL approach, identify ways to include it in everyday practice, whilst sharing it with families, building confidence and knowledge to support the home learning environment.
• Develop a multi-agency approach to supporting parents to develop their home learning environments, specifically focusing on communication, language, and literacy.

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Audience

Free network meetings for all those who have completed the Introduction to Making it REAL training.

Aims

These network meetings provide opportunities to share ideas, discuss your practice and ask any questions. The meetings take place online three times across the academic year. Please feel free to book one or more of them.

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Audience

This course is designed for family-facing early years practitioners, including childminders, Child and Family Centre staff, early years practitioners, early years teachers, and teaching assistants.  

Aims

Hanen’s Teacher Talk three-module series is based on ‘Learning Language and Loving It’, the Hanen programme for early childhood educators. It has been developed to provide core strategies to help you create rich and stimulating language learning environments for the young children you work with.

This first module will show you how to use everyday conversations in play and daily routines to promote children’s communication and social development, including children with language delays and second language learners. During this course, you will:

• Identify children's conversational styles and the role practitioners play in interactions
• Implement steps to follow the child's lead, observe, wait and listen, be face-to-face, imitate, interpret, comment, and join in and play.
• Help children become better conversation partners by using appropriate questions, comments and turn-taking cues.
• Use important steps to ensure no child is left out of the interaction during group activities.

Additional information

Learners will need to receive a participant's handbook, included in the cost of the course, from the trainer. Learners will also need to complete pre-session homework, which will take approximately 30 minutes.

For a limited time, you can save 20% off your booking fee by booking a space to join all three Hanen Teacher Talk modules.

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Audience

This course is designed for family-facing early years practitioners, including childminders, Child and Family Centre staff, and early years practitioners. Those wishing to join Module 2 must already have completed Module 1.

Aims

Hanen’s Teacher Talk three-module series is based on ‘Learning Language and Loving It’, the Hanen programme for early childhood educators. It has been developed to provide core strategies to help you create rich and stimulating language learning environments for the young children you work with.

This second module will discuss the important links between oral language development and literacy. It will provide you with practical strategies for paving the way for children to read and write. During this course, you will learn how to:

• Help children develop a positive attitude towards the use of print.
• Choose books that match children’s interests and stages of development.
• Use book reading as a time for interaction and conversation.
• Make print a natural and meaningful part of every day.

Additional information

Learners will need to receive a participant's handbook, included in the cost of the course, from the trainer. Learners will also need to complete pre-session homework, which will take approximately 30 minutes.

For a limited time, you can save 20% off your booking fee by booking a space to join all three Hanen Teacher Talk modules.

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Audience

This course is designed for family-facing early years practitioners, including childminders, Child and Family Centre staff, and practitioners. Those wishing to join Module 3 must already have completed Module 1.

Aims

Hanen’s Teacher Talk three-module series is based on ‘Learning Language and Loving It’, the Hanen programme for early childhood educators. It has been developed to provide core strategies to help you create rich and stimulating language learning environments for the young children you work with.

This third module will show you how to provide a physical and social environment that encourages peer interaction and creates many opportunities for successful interactions with other children. During this course, you will learn how to:

• Make the most effective use of space in the classroom.
• Encourage a variety of groupings for interaction.
• Provide appropriate materials and activities.
• Create reasons for interaction and provide specific coaching.

Additional information

Learners will need to receive a participant's handbook, included in the cost of the course, from the trainer. Learners will also need to complete pre-session homework, which will take approximately 30 minutes.

For a limited time, you can save 20% off your booking fee by booking a space to join all three Hanen Teacher Talk modules.

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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 how we can create communication supportive environments to support 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.

Additional information

Delegates will receive a speech and language toolkit, worth £85, included in the cost of the course.

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* 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 you can use to support 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.

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