Guest Speaker
Sally Rose
- Sally's vocation of teaching/literacy is still a passion
- Literacy, understanding, reading and writing
- Been in early childhood teaching for 40 years
- Sally met Mem Fox and mentioned that she would like everybody to read a 'good book' and Mem replied that she would like everyone to be able to 'read a book'
- Communication right from the beginning is a serve and return (listen and respond)
- Children who are read to, sung to, pick up and learn things more quickly
- All the things we do with children help to develop their early literacy skills
- We try to get 5,000 words in their vocabulary before they start school (ideally 15,000)
- Printed language helps to develop 'print literacy'
- The signs around the room are a code labelling all the equipment but if you don't know what the code is (letters and numbers) you cannot decipher what is written
- Children who are read to learn that print means something - consistency and can tell you the story before they can read themselves
- Book language is different to spoken language
- We have the opportunity to give children the skill to help them learn to read
- Sally gave out an exercise to complete
- If you want intelligent children, read to them. If you want very intelligent children, read to them more! - Albert Einstein