Jacqueline E. Alexander
Hi there! Born in Essex now living in Hertfordshire, my teaching observations and assessment together with educational and child development research, led me to produce Wizzy’s Words. A book of re-worked nursery rhymes for our 0 to 5s+ today. The book is a resource for parents and early years practitioners, wishing to support their children, safe in the knowledge that the resource is based on validated language development data. It has been developed for sharing with children with typical and less typical language development.
A number of children continue to enter school without the phonological awareness and oral vocabulary for educational success. The difference between Wizzy’s Words and traditional nursery rhyme books is that it specifically contains the key oral vocabulary associated with ongoing, successful learning. Sharing nursery rhymes in a 'singy songy' way is also associated with the development of phonological awareness. Wizzy's Words is therefore a key resource for the development of both phonological awareness and key oral vocabulary, the pre-requisites for learning to read and write. Jacqueline E Alexander
