Early years conference

Early years conference 2020: For the love of reading

Resources from the conference held on 7 March 2020 at University of West London:

• Introduction
• When does talk turn into reading
• The children are the stories
• 101 uses of a learning story
• Sensory stories
• Fun with sounds getting ready for reading
• Better ways to engage children and handouts
• Storytelling framework point for consideration
• Introduction to hotseating
• Action plan

Early years conference 2019

Mind the word gap how to extend children's vocabulary.

Below resources are in pdf format:

• Action plan (conference workshop)
• Becoming an effective partner for young language learners handout
• Early Start SEND workshop
• ECAT child monitoring tool
• Effective communication partners
• Grove House Nursery School
• Lizzie Ross and Alice Daly
• Planning by strand
• Planning for a communication-friendly space
• Quality indicators for communicaiton and langauge
• Samira John-Bailey
• Speech and language monitoring tool
• Speech, language and communication development
• The word gap (three slides) for Charles
• Word gap keynote handout