JCPSLP Vol 18 No. 1Mar 2016

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When? “Today.” Made? “I made a mobile.” Used? “We used a coat hanger, string and card.” I... “I coloured the pictures.” Then... “Then I cut them out.” And then... “And then I tied them onto the coat hanger.” When? “Today.” Who? “All the Kindy kids.” What? “Played.” Where? “Outside in the sand pit.” Greeting “Good morning everyone.” What? “I’m holding an elephant.” Colour? “It’s grey.” Parts? “It has tusks and a trunk.” Thank You “Thanks for listening.”

Object Based News

Demonstration video www.pld-literacy.org/ product/developing- news-telling-and- narrative-skills-for-4- year-olds/

EARLY YEARS 14 Movement & Motor Pre-Literacy Oral Language Prices exclude GST

Activity Retells

Developing News Telling and Narrative Skills • The instruction manual includes examples of Adequate and Inadequate language. E.g. Inadequate Activity Retells language: “I made a frog, put on glue, put on eyes, put on green, put on mouth.” ( Does not use connector words [then, and then] and overuses the word ‘put’ rather than painted, drew, glued.) • Includes guidelines for instructing whole group, small group and individual activities. $75 Website Order Code: Mn4 ISBN: 978-1-921560-38-5

The cards (and/or posters) can be used to model and support whole class, small group or individual news telling.

Event Based News

“Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes” “Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media” EYLF (Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators)

Story retell summaries outline the language model teachers should provide to students aged 3½ to 4½ years. Students of this age should be able to produce a retell containing the introduction, three events and an ending while incorporating the joining words: then/and then/but/so

Picture Book Retelling - Step 1 • Colour storytelling cards and posters

which assist early retelling efforts. • Retell summaries for over 40 four year old picture books. • A story retell assessment screen to monitor progress with explicit instructions, colour cards and a checklist to record: - age appropriate observations - observations made which suggest small focused group narrative skill development is recommended $75 Website Order Code: Pbr4 ISBN: 978-1-921560-97-2

Demonstration video www.pld-literacy.org/product/ picture-book-retelling-step-1/