Tag: Early Literacy
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11/18/2026 | Do It Yourself Early Learning
Description Based on our books, Do It Yourself Early Learning and Everyday Early Learning, the session takes a hands-on look at dozens of ideas for using materials from your local home center, grocery store, big box store, dollar store, or recycling bin to promote child-directed play, exploration, discovery, and learning. Browse Training FAQs Get Assistance
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09/23/2026 | Do It Yourself Early Literacy
Description This session discusses simple and practical ideas for helping children build early literacy skills. We’ll look at a bunch of ideas for making books, discuss how active physical play helps prepare kids to read and write, look at play-based ways to help grow vocabularies, and touch on other ideas for supporting literacy skill-building in…
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05/27/2026 | Do It Yourself Block Ideas
Description This session offers many ideas for inexpensive do-it-yourself blocks made from simple, affordable, and readily available materials. We also discuss the value of child involvement in making blocks and how DIY blocks spice up traditional block play spaces. Browse Training FAQs Get Assistance
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02/25/2026 | Understanding Loose Parts Play
Description This session starts with a look at Simon Nicholson’s definition of loose parts and how the term covers so much more than pine cones and shells. After defining loose parts, we dig into things like sourcing loose parts, supporting loose parts play, the learning that happens during loose parts play, and how to explain…
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09/30/2025 | Do It Yourself Early Learning
Description Based on our books, Do It Yourself Early Learning and Everyday Early Learning, the session takes a hands-on look at dozens of ideas for using materials from your local home center, grocery store, big box store, dollar store, or recycling bin to promote child-directed play, exploration, discovery, and learning. Browse Training FAQs Get Assistance
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08/12/2025 | Do It Yourself Early Literacy
Description This session discusses simple and practical ideas for helping children build early literacy skills. We’ll look at a bunch of ideas for making books, discuss how active physical play helps prepare kids to read and write, look at play-based ways to help grow vocabularies, and touch on other ideas for supporting literacy skill-building in…