Presenters Diane McCahill, Early Literacy Specialist, Shelley Marui, Early Literacy Specialist, and Alison Morrison, Speech-Language Pathologist and Co-ordinator of the Lambton Preschool Speech & Language Program "SoundStart" review their planning and implementation of a community education initiative in which they educate early years professionals in their community about early literacy development through an annual conference.

They kindly share their resources with us so that more communities can offer similar opportunities to their early years professionals.

Administrative Resources

 Committee Member Invite Letter (14.4 kB)

 Donation Request

 Evaluation Form (33.79 kB)

 Participant Certificate (248.94 kB)

 Planning a Conference in Your Community (23.95 kB)

 Sample Budget (11.31 kB)

Resource Sheets related to Early Literacy Development Categories

Phonological Awareness	Print	Vocabulary
Isolating Sounds 3-4 (34.88 kB)	Goodnight Gorilla (40.88 kB)	Cookies (40.81 kB)
Isolating Sounds 5-6 (35.75 kB)	Let's Go Visiting (38.01 kB)	Dear Zoo (37.15 kB)
Rhyming 3-4 (38.25 kB)	School Bus (38.04 kB)	Diary of a Worm (37.05 kB)
Rhyming 5-6 (36.13 kB)	The Way I Feel (36.75 kB)	Goodnight Moon (40.52 kB)
Segmenting 3-4 (35.44 kB)		Thesaurus Rex (39.43 kB)
Segmenting 5-6 (36.02 kB)		Where is the Green Sheep? (36.49 kB)
Sound Manipulation (35.28 kB)

Thank you to SoundStart for sharing these resources. Congratulations on the success of your latest conference Sowing the Seeds of Literacy 2010.