Shared Reading: Let’s Be Interactive Follow Up

This year I was very honoured to be invited to give the keynote presentation at the virtual AAC Conference, AAC in the Cloud. The topic of my session was shared reading – and my focus was on “Let’s Be Interactive”. I had set the topic before COVID-19 had such an impact on our lives –

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Hello Book – in Dutch and Spanish

A few weeks ago I shared a week of emergent literacy planning on the topic of greetings, using a book I wrote called “Hello”. As I’ve mentioned before, I had a request from the fabulous Violeta for a PowerPoint version that she could translate into Dutch. Not only has she translated it but she has

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Emergent Literacy Planning

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Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on more emergent literacy planning for teachers, schools and parents to use. Today I have put the first three packs up online at www.comprehensiveliteracy.com under emergent literacy planning. The three new packs are on the topics of feelings, preferences and descriptions. Each pack includes a

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Shared Reading – Keep the Interaction Going!

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Nearly 5 years ago I wrote a blog post called “Shared Reading: Focus on Interaction“. Shared reading is when we read a book interactively with someone else – and the focus during the book reading is on that interaction. As you are aware, there are a lot of electronic resources being shared at the moment,

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Hello! Emergent literacy planning

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Hello Book Regular Contrast I know lots of teachers and parents are working on home schooling plans currently. This week I’ve been spending time tidying up some of my resources to share – and one I have just finished is a week of planning for working on emergent literacy. The planning centers around the book

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AAC at Home

Following my last post on Reading at Home, I had a few requests for an simple AAC at Home poster for parents who are just getting started. Jodie at Adelaide West Special Education Centre was the first off the mark – and since their school has students mostly using PODD or Proloquo2Go, those are the

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Reading At Home

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As schools across the world are closing down in response to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, many educators are being asked to prepare home schooling programs. Later this week I’ll be publishing some resources around this – but for the moment I’ve had a request from The Grove Education Centre for a simple pamphlet about

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Building Language Through Emergent Writing

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This is the third and final video I’ll be sharing from the Angelman UK 2019 Communication and Literacy Conference. This presentation focuses on the importance of emergent writing for each and every individual to develop as a writer. It also talks about how writing, like all the other areas of literacy, has a reciprocal relationship

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