Children’s Readers
Early Childhood Edition
Here you will find electronic copies of the books used as part of the Words Can POP early childhood centre teaching for 3-4 year old children. You can use the narrated story presentation link to view a recorded telling of these stories.
You can also purchase your own hard copy set of these readers here. Please scroll down to the bottom of the page to locate this set of resources.
Scroll down to the bottom of this page to access a series of short videos on how to use these books to support your child’s early literacy and language development.
Narrated story presentations
Click on the story titles below to see a narrated presentation of the book.
For more ideas on how to use these books, and other activities for supporting children’s early language and literacy development, explore our resource videos below. The first video explains the rationale behind our current project with Kidsfirst Kindergartens and provides an overview of Words Can POP at centres. The other videos cover areas of the Words Can POP framework and were made to support the families at the centres using this approach.
Project Summary from Associate Professor Brigid McNeill
Introduction to Words Can POP strategies
Words - Vocabulary Development
To view or download the handout mentioned in the videos, click here.
If you haven’t already completed the online survey as part of the research project, please follow this link. The survey asks questions about your child’s health, family and daily life, to help us better understand factors that support children’s oral language development.
To register for our free online course focused on giving children a great start to reading, follow this link.