Is your child starting school next year?
If so, we’ve written a school readiness essentials resource pack designed to help you and your child to make the most of your next few months together to get ready for big school.
Why does school readiness matter?
School readiness predicts academic outcomes (e.g. Snow, 2006); and is a strong indicator of ongoing and future success (e.g. Prior et al., 1993). A child’s oral language competencies (listening and talking) and pre-reading skills are key predictors of school readiness (Prior et al., 2011; Dilnot et al., 2017).
What’s in the Essentials Pack?
We’ve selected 10 oral language and three bonus pre-literacy resources written specifically for children starting school next year (over 300 pages of resources):
- Understanding questions: Once upon a what?
- Understanding questions: Once upon a who?
- Understanding questions: Once upon a where?
- What is it? Describe it: School vocabulary
- Banter Boy Verbs in Sentences GIF pack
- Tell me: What does it do? What do you do with it? (Parts, and verbs)
- Following complex and multi-step directions workout
- Banter Barrier Tasks to practice making requests and following instructions
- Real world things your child should know before starting school
- How to make requests politely: Can I [have/go…]?
- Bonus: Recommended picture books for preschoolers (with defined vocabulary)
- Bonus: Classic audiobooks for preschoolers for listening at home or in the car
- Bonus: 15 video models with Letter-Sound Links for beginning readers
All chosen by our speech pathologists to help support your child’s oral language and pre-literacy development before school starts next year.
The Essentials Pack is currently 20% off. Check it out:
Read our free guides and articles:
- Getting ready to read at big school: a free guide for families with preschoolers
- Is your child ready for school? Focusing on what matters most
- Is your child ready for school? What Kindergarten teachers say
- Reading with – not to – your preschoolers: how to do it better (and why)
- Free language and reading information and resources for preschoolers to help make things better for everyone in the family – including you!
- Preparing your preschooler to learn to read: skills to focus on first
- Teaching the alphabet to your child? Here’s what you need to know
Hi there, I’m David Kinnane.
Principal Speech Pathologist, Banter Speech & Language
Our talented team of certified practising speech pathologists provide unhurried, personalised and evidence-based speech pathology care to children and adults in the Inner West of Sydney and beyond, both in our clinic and via telehealth.
