How to use WIZZY’S WORDS to support #EARLYLANGUAGELEARNING

November 26, 2021

Introduction

Often, we approach a task assuming that it is simple.  As a parent of young children, I was not then fully aware of the strategies that would work for supporting my children to learn to read. I have now been an early year’s teacher for many years and have also been involved in child development research.  This has led me to realise how helpful it is, for parents and educators to be given ongoing and up to date guidance with respect to the language development that underpins all learning. This …

What is Wizzy’s Words #languagedevelopment resource?

November 26, 2021

  

Introduction

The publishing of Wizzy’s Words, language development resource, is important as a number of children continue to reach the end of their reception year in school without meeting age-related oral vocabulary targets (see Bercow (2008), Tickell (2011), Hinds (2018).  Damian Hinds Secretary of State for Education in 2018, met with a coalition of businesses, charities, technology and media groups, to address the ongoing gap between peers’ school entry language skills.  Hinds noted that, ‘This, matters because when you’re behind from the start you rarely …

How to support your child’s #EARLYLANGUAGELEARNING

October 12, 2021

                                                      Hi and welcome, I’m Jacqueline E Alexander

 

How to support your child’s EARLY LANGUAGE LEARNING

Using WIZZY’S WORDS

 

Children starting school with an age-appropriate oral #vocabulary, i.e., spoken words, generally do well in school and in life.

As a parent and teacher, …