Program and Practice

Literacy in the Early Years

  • APST Aligned
  • NQS Areas
  • 1
    Area 1Educational Program Practice
  • 3
    Area 3Physical environment
  • 5
    Area 5Relationships with children

Are you ready to recognise, support and extend children’s emerging literacy skills in meaningful, everyday ways?

This session will build your confidence to identify early literacy development, understand the difference between learning to read and reading to learn, and apply practical strategies to embed literacy across your program.

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What you'll learn

Literacy is a vital form of communication that underpins all learning, and it begins long before children learn to read and write. This session explores how educators can recognise and support emerging literacy skills through intentional, responsive practice. Grounded in the Early Years Learning Framework (V2.0), participants will deepen their understanding of literacy as the capacity, confidence and disposition to use language in all its forms.

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What you'll take into practice

Educators will explore how literacy develops alongside other key skills, unpack the difference between learning to read and reading to learn, and gain practical strategies to embed literacy into everyday experiences. This session will strengthen your ability to plan, assess and extend children’s literacy learning in authentic and engaging ways.

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This course aligns to Standard 2 (Know the content and how to teach it) of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. 

Clear, concise, interesting and interactive. I loved that the facilitator made it interactive using fun games, this got us all involved and thinking. Deborah

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Thu, 18 Jun 26
🕒 1pm-2pm

Thu, 13 Aug 26
🕒 11am-12pm

Wed, 7 Oct 26
🕒 10am-11am

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