Transcript Introducing Early Reading Connects

Introducing
Early Reading Connects
“With strong communication skills children can
engage with the world and thrive. Our review
has found that these essential life skills are too
low a priority in education.”
“Communication and language are essential life
skills and a human right.”
- John Bercow Report
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Imagine what a difference it
would make if every child loved
to read?
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Why reading is so important
“Research has shown that children who hear
stories before going to school are the most likely
to succeed. Storytelling helps children
internalise language patterns, as well as
providing them with a rucksack of imaginative
possibilities to draw upon when creating. It is
worth noting that the most proficient writers in
any class are readers.”
- Pie Corbett
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Why family involvement is key
“Parental involvement in their child’s
reading has been found to be the most
important determinant of language and
emergent literacy.”
- Bus, van Jzendoorn and Pellegrini,
1995
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What is Early Reading Connects?
Early Reading Connects brings together easy-toaccess resources and great ideas from a wide
range of early years organisations, settings and
practitioners to help you:
• encourage a love of language, stories and
reading among the babies, toddlers or young
children in your
care
• engage and involve the children’s families in
this
process
• share good practice
and
resources
and
build
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your
confidence
in supporting the children
Our partners – who helped to
develop and continue to support us
Booktrust
ContinYou
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Why you should join ERC
National Recognition – a certificate
Toolkit and evaluation grid to help get you
started
Website full of resources, practical
tried-and-tested ideas and inspiring
case studies
Networking opportunities
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Online
• www.earlyreadingconnects.org.uk
• News, case studies, blog entries from
around the UK
• A bank of resources and practical ideas
• Your own blog to use
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How you can get started
1. Reflect on how you approach stories and
reading in your work at present and what you
could do to make improvements.
2. Read the evaluation grid which helps you to
see where you are now and how to more
forward.
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3. Set yourself one or two action points of things
that you can do to help encourage a love of
reading in the children that you work with.
4. Join Early Reading Connects by filling in the
online form at www.earlyreadingconnects.org.uk
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On the next four slides you will see just a few
practical ideas you might want to put into
practice.
The Early Reading Connects toolkit and
evaluation grid are organised using the four
themes of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
And so are the following ideas…
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Unique Child
• Use a game to help children
explore stories
• Use the editable story game
to make a game based on a
child’s favourite book
• Use books for interaction with
autistic spectrum children
outside of the world of eye
contact
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Positive Family
Relationships
• Start loan schemes for
books, story sacks and
more
• Get in touch with dads
using texts and emails.
• Create events for
family to attend, like a
‘Bedtime stories’ party
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Enabling
environment
• Put books in unusual
places, not just the book
corner
• Take children out into the
local area to inspire new
stories
• Create new resources
using our online materials
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Learning and
development
• Make family
storybooks
• Use Pie Corbett’s
storytelling technique
• Use the evaluation grid
to plan your wholesetting strategy
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Networking opportunities
• Being an Early Reading Connects member
allows you to learn from other early years
settings as well as share the ideas and
resources that have worked in your setting.
• Your work could be showcased on the Early
Reading Connects website or featured in a
newsletter
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Let’s help every parent help their
child to love reading.
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