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All Talk Now Library Leaflet

The All Talk Now Library is available to all Early Years Workers in Coventry. This leaflet gives all the information you need to use the library.

Books to Share with Young Children

Suggestions for books to enjoy with your young child with tips to help make the stories come alive.

Chatter Cards: Tips for Using the Rhyme Cards

Suggestions on using the Rhyme Cards.

Chatter Cards: Tips for Using the Talking Games Cards

Suggestions on using the Talking Games Cards.

Chatter Cards: Tips for Using the Vocabulary Cards

Suggestions on using the Vocabulary Cards.

ECaT case studies - Chloe

A case study describing how ECaT helped a child experiencing speech and language delay and the practice of her carer

ECaT case studies - childminder's experiences

Read about the experiences of childminders on the ECaT programme and of the positive impact that Talking Tots had in delievering high quality groups for young children and their cares.

ECaT case studies - childminder's experiences - Aaron

Read how childminders took part on the ECaT programme and the impact their experiences had on their practice with young children and their work with other childminders and parents

ECaT case studies - childminder's experiences - Olivia

A case study on the impact on a child learning English as an additional language

ECaT case studies- BLAST at a preschool

BLAST implemented in a local playgoup with great results!

ECaT case studies- BLAST at a private day Nursery

BLAST has been successfully implemented in a range of early years settings in Coventry - including in a full dare care setting. Read how this semi-structured small group teaching helps children develop theoir langauge skills.

ECaT case studies- BLAST in a maintained Nursery

The BLAST programme implemented in a large school nursery with children with many and varied communication needs.

ECaT case studies- Listen, Think, Talk

Listen, Think, Talk" was an initiative developed by SLTs working in Coventry and had a significant impact on the way practitioners' interacted with children to help develop children's langauge development.

ECaT case studies- outdoors

Exciting case study about the work undertaken in a large Foundation Unit of a Coventry school, looking at the use of their outdoors environment as a communication friendly environment

ECaT case studies- outdoors at a preschool

Read how a preschool took the principles of the Ecat programme and expanded children's play and language learning outdoors

The Ecat programme helped the staff at a playgroup think about the use of books and shared story times and led to some changes to help Every child be a listener and a talker at story time!

ECaT case study - developing a book loan resource in a Foundation Unit

Book ownership and reading together for pleasure is one of the most critical factors in children's later literacy development. So we developed book loan libraries in the ECaT settings for children and families to discover the joy of reading together. Simple but so effective, with great impact on children's language development and their readiness for later learning.

ECaT case study - home learning resources

Discover how one children centre in the ECaT programme developed and shared home learning resources with the families of the children attending their day care to support positive home learning experiences.

ECaT case study - learning journals

A children centres' journey of redefining the role of Leaning Journals as a means of supporting children's learning both at home and in the centre and foster better relationships with the families.

ECaT case study - promoting parent partnerships at a preschool setting

Read how a "pack away" setting have reviewed and renewed their partnership working principles and practices with their families and the impact it has had on the children's language development, the staff's skills and confidence and the engagement of parents and families.

ECaT case study - working with parents in a large school Nursery

Describes how staff have developed their parents' involvement in the Nursery and influenced the home learning environments

ECaT case study -Documenting children's leaning

A teacher shares how she put into practice some c.p.d from Hillfields Children Centre about documenting children's learning and exploration of objects to share with other learners and parents

ECaT case study :Communicating with parents

Communicating with parents of children attending a sessional and full day care provision

ECaT case study :Parent session in a Nursery class

Ecat case study describing how a parents session was planned and deleivered in a school nursery and used to communicate important messages about children's CLL development

ECaT case study :Using PEEP at a full day care setting with parents and children learning together

PEEP is a model and framework of working with parents and children together to learn and explore. This model was utilised in a "play and stay" type group attached to a fulll day care provison and run by a member of staff and volunteers from the local community and church. Other settings and centres are now taking up this approach to support some of the more vulnerable children and families.

ECaT case study- Working in partnership with parents at a preschool

A small local setting can do big things! Read about all the ways that this local provision has had a big impact in its learning community.

ECaT case study-SHARE

SHARE is a framework and set of resoucres that support parents in their role as educators for their children, that has been successfully delievered in many schools and settings in Coventry. Read about how one early years unit in a school introduced this as means of engaging their families in learning together.

Early Sentence User: 22 to 36 months

Frequently Asked Questions

Game Cards: Talking Games 1 (English)

Game Cards: Talking Games 2 (English)

Game Cards: Talking Games 2 (French)

Game Cards: Talking Games 2 (Polish)

Game Cards: Talking Games 3 (English)

Game Cards: Talking Games 3 (French)

Game Cards: Talking Games 3 (Polish)

Great Books for the Early Years

A booklet all about the pleasures of sharing books with young children produced by Random House Children`s Books. It includes illustrated booklists for different age groups and lots of helpful hints and tips.

How to make your 'Chatter Cards'

Information on how to make chatter cards individually or as keyring books.

Later Sentence User: 30 to 50 months

Listen Think Talk Information

Rhyme Cards: Nursery Rhymes

Rhyme Cards: Traditional Rhymes

Skilled Communicator: 40 to 60 months

Talking Tips Communication Development Stages: Pregnancy

Talking Tips Communication Development Stages: Stage 1, Communication Discovery

Talking Tips Communication Development Stages: Stage 2, First Words

Talking Tips Communication Development Stages: Stage 3, Combiner

Talking Tips Communication Development Stages: Stage 4, Early Sentence User

Talking Tips Communication Development Stages: Stage 5, Later Sentence User

Talking Tips Communication Development Stages: Stage 6, Skilled Communicator

Talking Tips: Attention

Develop children's attention and listening skills using these talking tips.

Talking Tips: Choices

Help develop children's understanding of words by offering choices.

Talking Tips: Congratulations on Your Pregnancy

Tips for getting ready to talk your baby.

Talking Tips: Getting Started

Ten tops tips for helping children to become confident communicators.

Talking Tips: Make Sentences Simpler

Ideas for keeping your language simple, to help children in the early stages of language development.

Talking Tips: Nursery Rhymes

Talking Tips: Use Comments

How to use comments to help children learn more words.

Talking Tips: Use Gestures

Tips on using gestures to help children begin to use more words.

The Combiner: 16 to 26 months

The Communication Discoverer : Birth to 11 months

The First Word User: 8 to 20 months

Vocabulary Cards: I Can Hear

Vocabulary Cards: I Can See

Vocabulary Cards: Name Things

Winter Rhymes and Activites

Rhymes and activities with a winter theme to share with your child.

The Talk to Your Baby website also has a wide range of downloadable resources including Quick Tips, a series of information sheets available in 10 languages. Topics include dummies, television and information for bi-lingual families.

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