Reading in the early years

Anne offers a range of training on encouraging reading and pre-reading skills during the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

Her courses explore strategies for helping young children towards a love of books, and for laying the foundations for happy and successful reading.

Anne always tailors these courses to local circumstances and client requirements. They are suitable for national, regional and local authority training, and as in-house training in children's centres and early years settings.

They have been found extremely popular and effective by early years practitioners, teachers, teaching assistants, Bookstart workers, health visitors and library staff.

All Anne’s early years courses are practical and participative, and are backed up with extensive handouts.

Depending on need, topics for consideration can include:

  • early language and reading development
  • the EYFS communication, language and literacy requirements and ways to meet them
  • choosing and using books and other resources
  • fostering children’s language development through dialogic book reading
  • strategies for developing skills and enjoyment through games and play
  • helping parents and carers to support children’s reading effectively and family literacy

The course is backed up with an extensive set of handouts.

What people say about this training

It has made me think more about planning my environment to suit the children, to help them take more of an interest in reading/sharing books.

I now know how to encourage parents with their child's reading, how to answer their questions constructively.

The course made me think about how books can develop readers, what types of books and activities to use to work towards achieving this.

Very good. Feel much more confident now to try and help children to read.

Anne’s course shows her extreme enthusiasm for reading and books. It is put across very well, at a level for everyone to understand. Lots of practical ideas to share with children and parents.

Very enjoyable and worthwhile. Interesting to hear other views on books and how other settings encourage enjoyment.

Information how to get the best from books and language. Anne was very clear in her presentation and made it interesting to take part and add your own points.

Very interesting. Lovely balance of being spoken to and interactive group work. Great ideas shared. Felt very friendly and made large group work relaxed and easy.

Really highly enjoyable with many useful ideas to the back to our setting. The breaking down of how children begin to become receptive toward books was very helpful. I’ve also made note of many books to add to our library.