Early Words Together for London

This programme helps parents support their young child’s literacy and language development.
About the programme
Early Words Together for London will work in three areas of London; focusing on the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in year one and Southwark in year two.
Early Words Together for London has been designed with adaptions to support children at three different stages of their development: ages 2, 3 and 4 to 5 years. Through the programme, parents learn simple daily activities such as shared reading, songs and mark-making.
Early Words Together for London is delivered in two ways: face-to-face, where nursery practitioners are trained to work with small groups of families for five to six weeks, and through digital content, where practitioners and families access videos supporting the programme.
A further adaptation to the programme involves delivering sessions in available space outdoors. This is particularly useful if restrictions are in place to prevent parents from entering the setting.
Our Small Talk website further supports parents, adding an extra boost to the activities taking place in the settings. It also engages harder to reach families who may be facing barriers accessing the nursery sessions, such as low confidence, scheduling and transport issues.
Resources
Early Words Together for London is currently running in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and Southwark. If you are a practitioner in Barking and Dagenham, please ask parents to complete this survey in the last session of each cycle (downloadable from the resource pages below). Practitioners should also complete this progress report each term. If you are a practitioner in Southwark, please ask parents to complete this survey in the last session of each cycle (downloadable from the resource pages below).
We have lots more downloadable resources for schools and settings delivering Early Words Together for London on the resource pages below.
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Early Words Together at Two resources
We have a number of resources available for settings delivering Early Words Together at Two.Learn more -
Early Words Together at Two Outdoors
Resources to support practitioners to deliver our Early Words Together at Two Outdoors programme.Learn more -
Early Words Together at Three resources
Explore resources to support schools to deliver Early Words Together at Three.Learn more -
Early Words Together for 4-5 resources
This page contains all the additional resources you will need to run Early Words Together for children aged for 4 to 5.Learn more
Digital resources
We have videos to support practitioners delivering Early Words Together sessions in their settings, as well as a range of resources for parents on our Small Talk website.
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Videos for practitioners
These six videos show practitioners delivering Early Words Together sessions in their settings.See more -
Small Talk
Small Talk is a new project which helps parents turn the activities they are already doing with their child every day into new opportunities to build their child’s language...See more