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Hello Book – in Dutch and Spanish

Apr 26, 2020

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

Emergent Literacy Planning

Apr 17, 20202 Comments

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

Shared Reading – Keep the Interaction Going!

Apr 5, 20202 Comments

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,

Hello! Emergent literacy planning

Apr 4, 20201 Comment

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

New website: Comprehensive Literacy for ALL

Mar 31, 20206 Comments

For the last couple of months I have been working on a new resource for the schools I work with. Recently I’ve had a bit more quality time to work on it (for some reason)! As a result, it is now finished and ready to share – and given the current situation I’ve decided to

AAC at Home

Mar 30, 2020

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

Reading At Home

Mar 22, 20203 Comments

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

Building Language Through Emergent Writing

Feb 6, 20204 Comments

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

Literacy and Complex Communication Needs: Developing Language

Feb 3, 20202 Comments

This is the second video I’m sharing from the Angleman UK 2019 Communication & Literacy Conference. Thanks again to Angelman UK and See Speak Hear for making this available. In the beginning of my career, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) rapidly became the area of speech language pathology that interested me the most. I enjoyed

Communication: The Sky’s the Limit

Feb 1, 2020

In October last year I was lucky to be invited to attend the Angelman UK Communication and Literacy Conference in Coventry in the UK. It was the second time that Angelman UK ran a conference focused on these areas – and they were kind enough to video my plenary presentation on “Communication: The Sky’s the