Early Childhood Notes — FREE e-newsletter from Pademelon Press

EARLY LITERACIES

November 2011

Dear Early Childhood Practitioner

Welcome to our FREE e-newsletter, Early Childhood Notes.

Literacy learning begins at birth as young children participate in the social practices of their homes and communities. Children who love music, books and stories; who enjoy drawing, painting and writing; who are at home with new technologies; and who interact confidently and comfortably with others, are greatly advantaged, not just in school-based literacy, but throughout their lives. Literacies not only represent reading and writing but, in this modern age, literacies also refers to mobile phones, email, twitter, Facebook, YouTube, as well as music, rhymes and rhythms, drama and storytelling, drawing, painting, acting and dancing, as well as gestures and signing. Any method for interacting and communicating with other people is literacy.

In this e-newsletter you will find:

– information on our upcoming publication Learning Literacies Birth to Three: Positive Approaches for Early Childhood Educators, by Laurie Makin and Susan Spedding

– extracts from reviews of this new title by Deborah Cann (Inclusion Support Facilitator KU Children's Services) and Janet Gonzalez-Mena (author and international speaker)

– quality early literacies resources from Pademelon Press

– surprise bags: great value, ideal for end-of-year gifts for colleagues and friends, while stocks last

– upcoming conferences

We hope you enjoy this edition of Early Childhood Notes. To forward it to your colleagues click here.

Bye for now

Rodney and Carmel Kenner at Pademelon Press

Upcoming publications

Learning Literacies Birth to Three:
Positive Approaches for Early Childhood Educators

Laurie Makin and Susan Spedding

Despite international recognition of the importance of early education, in particular of the experiences and opportunities provided in the first three years of children's lives, most publications designed to assist early childhood educators in supporting literacy learning focus on older children. There has been little specifically related to literacy birth to three.

In this upcoming publication, the authors present information about the early literacy learning of babies, toddlers and young children and offer many practical strategies to support and monitor early literacy learning. The book also provides resources that can be used to develop partnerships with families.

Click here to read more or to pre-order this title.

What others are saying about Learning Literacies

Read extracts from reviews by Deborah Cann (Inclusion Support Facilitator KU Children's Services) and Janet Gonzalez-Mena (author and international speaker).

Click here to read the extracts from Deborah's review.
Click here to read the extracts from Janet's review.

Surprise Bags

For a limited time only we're putting together SURPRISE BAGS!!!! Each surprise bag has over $200 worth of early childhood teacher resource
books for only $45 .

Click here for more information and to order.

Teacher Resource Books on Early Literacy

Conferences where Pademelon Press authors will be speaking

If you are interested in having one of our authors speak at your conference, please contact sue@pademelonpress.com.au and she will put you in touch with the author.

In, about and for Early Childhood environments and NQS
Community Child Care Co-operative Conference (NSW)
Saturday 12 November 2011
The Novotel, Olympic Boulevard, Sydney Olympic Park
Sue Elliott, editor of The Outdoor Playspace Naturally for Children Birth to Five Years.
For further information click here.

Building Bridges 2011: 'Is sustainability sustainable?'
Thursday 17 November 2011
The Valleys Restaurant, Wodonga TAFE, McKoy St, Wodonga

'The Four Faces of Sustainability'
Friday 18 November 2011
Charles Sturt University, Elizabeth Mitchell Drive, Thurgoona
Tracey Young, contributing author The Outdoor Playspace Naturally for Children
Birth to Five Years.
For further information click here.

Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Annual Conference: 'Researching Across Boundaries'
Sunday 27 November - Thursday 1 December 2011
Hobart, Tasmania
Bob Perry, co-author of Starting School: A Handbook for Early
Childhood Educators and Our Family is Starting School
A Handbook for Parents and Carers. For further information click here.

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