Talking, Singing, Reading Everyone, Everywhere!
We are so excited to announce Talking, Singing, Reading Everyone, Everywhere! in partnership with the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development! This skill-building project will train Early Childhood Educators who will then become mentors for their peers.
Through a sustainable coaching and mentorship model, these Educators will explore strategies and build confidence in oral and performative literacy skills, including storytelling, singing, and reading aloud.
The vision of this project is that Educators will become ‘Early Literacy Mentors’ in Performative Literacies in order to share best practices with their work peers. Educators will receive the training and be invited to participate in ongoing community of practice throughout the year. These mentors will support and coach other Educators and model ways to create literacy rich environments through Performative Literacies practices in their organizations.
Project outcomes are anticipated to include:
- Participating educators will report having increased confidence in singing, storytelling, and reading aloud.
- Participating educators will demonstrate increased skills in singing, storytelling, and reading aloud.
- Educators in facilities and programs will have shifted their practices to increase invitations for storytelling, singing and reading aloud. (Indoor and outdoor props, materials, furnishings and loose part, interactions and relationships, time and physical space), to reemphasize and enhances these practices.
We will be delivering training to up to 400 early childhood educators over the next 4 years.
YEAR ONE IS COMPLETE!
We are thrilled to announce that our first year of Talking, Singing, Reading…Everyone, Everywhere! is now complete! Educators from across NB participated in three sets of exciting workshops, and will go on to become Early Literacy Mentors.
“Being part of this literacy workshop has been an amazing experience. The knowledge and passion the presenters shared with us about how powerful literacy is has been inspirational.”
-Alex Canavan, ASD-W
“As a young educator, being a part of this workshop has truly opened my eyes to how important and powerful reading aloud can be to a child.”
-Keisha Price
Seen in this photo is Theresa Edwards, and children from Blossoms Learning Centre, Saint John. Theresa, who is an educator and literacy mentor participating in our project, states that “We have started to introduce more song/rhymes with actions and include the matching book. Now, a child will randomly bring me a book and start to do the actions or say a couple words to the song they want to sing”.
“The Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick is a recognized leader in advancing literacy in New Brunswick, with over 35 years of experience supporting literacy from birth to older adults,” said our President, Brent Melanson. “We have been a strategic partner for literacy in many areas, and we are certainly invested in providing training for early childhood educators.”
Read on about this amazing project here: https://www2.gnb.ca/…/news/news_release.2024.04.0174.html
Thank you to the Waltons Trust Foundation for funding this outstanding project.
For more information on this project, contact LCNB at: lcnb@nbliteracy.ca