We love the idea that Big W is giving away free children’s books. Study after study shows that children who grow up with more books in their homes have better language and literacy skills.
What we can do to help is to prepare some fun activities and helpful resources so that your child can get the most out of this offer.
Week 9:
There was and Old Bloke Who Swallowed a Chook
by P. Crumble and Louis Shea
The focus this week is on helping your child with personal pronouns. Here’s two fun activities that you can enjoy together!
Just click to download the three PDFs and print them out.
Village Therapy - There Was an Old Bloke
Village Therapy - Go Fish cards
Village Therapy - colouring cards
Week 7:
The Wheels of the Ute go Round and Round
by Loraine Harrison and Clare Richards
This week we’re going to focusing on helping your child with plurals. We’ve developed two fun activities that can really help with that!
Just click to download the two PDFs and print them out.
Village Therapy - The Wheels on the Ute
Village Therapy - colouring cards
Week 6:
The Bear went over the Mountain
by Louis Shea
We’ve made up two games all about animals to help your child to increase their vocabulary – and to have some fun with you at the same time!
Just click to download the two PDFs and print them out.
Village Therapy - How to Play
Bingo cards and Draw cards
Week 5:
May Gibbs Tales from the Bush
by May Gibbs
In these classic Australian children’s stories, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie are good friends. They are also great at making friends and being friends. In this book there are three stories where we read about just that. To go along with the book, we have designed some activities to help children learn about being a good friend.
Just click to download the PDF and print it out.
Village Therapy - May Gibbs
Week 4:
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Mozzie
by P. Crumble and Louis Shea
Many children have difficulty saying the letter ‘s’, so this week we have put together some ideas so parents and carers can help their child with this using the latest book. We’ve also included a Snakes and Ladders game focusing on that letter..
Just click to download the PDF and print it out.
Village Therapy - There Was An Old Lady
Week 3:
If You're Happy and You Know It
by P. Crumble and Chris Kennett
This week, Caitlin Grima (one of our talented Speech Pathologists) has created a fun list of activities that you can use on every page of this book.
Just click to download the PDF and print it out.
Happy - Village Therapy
Week 2:
10 Silly Wombats
by Ed Allen and Andrea Edmunds
Speech Pathologist Caitlin Grima has created a fun page-by-page list of activities to use with ’10 Silly Wombats’.
Just click to download the PDF and print it out.
10 Silly Wombats - Village Therapy
Week 1:
Hush Little Possum
by P. Crumble
Speech Pathologist Emily Jackson has created an Aided Language Display (ALD) to use with ‘Hush Little Possum’.
Just click to download the PDF and print it out.
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Here's a link to how you can use Aided Language Displays to help your child to communicate. You pointing at the symbols helps your child understand and extend their language.
Here's Emily demonstrating how you can use the Aided Language Display with 'Hush Little Possum' to help your child learn to communicate.
You point at the symbols as you talk about the book to your child.