Literacy teaching toolkit videos

Explores children’s early communication development, including their use of gestures, eye gaze, and joint attention.

A range of experiences where educators facilitate children’s use of language to request, take turns, share, and resolve conflicts.

The educator creates a multistep experience to extend the children’s interest and enjoyment of playing with toy vehicles.

How educators can use caregiving, routines, transitions, and other everyday situations to engage children in language-rich interactions.

Educators demonstrate ways of creating responsive play experiences for building children’s meaning-making.

Reviews a range of experiences where educators read with children to develop their oral language and emergent literacy skills.

Educators demonstrate ways of creating rich language experiences with young children, to build their vocabulary.

Explores how children’s speech develops from early vocalisations to clearer speech during the first three years.

How educators can develop children’s early conversation and social skills by creating engaging learning experiences.

How educators can use caregiving, routines, transitions, and other everyday situations to engage children in language-rich interactions.

A range of experiences where educators facilitate children’s use of language to request, take turns, share, and resolve conflicts.

While children explore herbs and dig up potatoes, the educator engages them in discussion, extends upon their thinking and use of language, and encourages exploration and discovery.

The educator creates a multistep experience to extend the children’s interest and enjoyment of playing with toy vehicles.

Educators demonstrate ways of creating responsive play experiences for building children’s meaning-making.

Reviews a range of experiences where educators read with children to develop their oral language and emergent literacy skills.

Examples of educators interacting with children to build their vocabulary in a range of experiences.

The educator uses interactive read-aloud strategies while sharing the text Wombat Stew.

A hands-on discussion about worm farms, as children learn about what they can and cannot feed worms.

Children participate in a guided play experience, creating a Yarra River waterhole for native Australian animals.

Children working with clay to make an art installation of the Yarra River.

Children participate in a drama experience centred on the imaginary problem of where to take a baby koala that has been found.

The educator invites children to use their higher order language skills to think of names for a group of coloured leaves.

Children create narratives.

Explores ways of using dance as a medium for children to make meaning and express themselves.

How educators can share stories using only the spoken word.

Children take part in a music experience exploring two important aspects of phonological awareness: syllables and rhyme.

Teaching practices for developing children’s awareness of syllables, rhyme, alliteration, and individual sounds.

Explores children’s vocabulary, as each child thinks of ways of how the Yarra moves.

Features multiple ways of exploring stories with children, through reading, storytelling, drama, fine arts, and writing experiences.

During an experiment representing a volcano explosion, the educator develops children's concepts and vocabulary, and encourages them to make predictions and explain their thinking.

Children participate in a guided play experience, creating a Yarra River waterhole for native Australian animals.