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Hello, welcome back.

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In today's training, we're going to introduce you

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to the Tales Toolkit at writing resources,

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and all of these are available for you to download

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so you can start writing with your children from tomorrow.

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There's two parts to today's training.

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In part one, we're going to show you

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how Tales Toolkit sets children up for writing.

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And in part two, we're gonna look at the Tales Toolkit,

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writing resources.

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So let's get going with part one.

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I want you to think here about the Tales, toolkit,

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principles, safe Space, child-led and fun.

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Safe space writing isn't easy, it's something

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that doesn't come naturally.

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And if children were left to their own devices, then many

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of them wouldn't choose to write.

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If you think back to the cavemen,

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it wasn't a skill they needed to survive.

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And it's only in the last 150 years

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that writing has been something that all children learn,

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and not just a rich and privilege,

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but over the generations there's been a passion

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for Mark making.

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Even the youngest children you'll see trying

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to communicate their thoughts

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and ideas through the marks they make.

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So we see if you like a natural history from the first

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time, maybe a baby traces marks in the food they're eating

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or in the sand or with a wet finger runs it along a window.

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Those are all early marks,

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and as children get more confident in making those marks,

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they'll often ascribe meaning to them.

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And as soon as they're ascribing meaning to a mark

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for us, they're on the journey. As early writers

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Tells, toolkit, provides lots of opportunity for children

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to be self-motivated to record their stories

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and ideas through Mark making,

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which is the first step in developing writing.

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Sounds, toolkit believes children don't need

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to master the skill of writing

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before they develop their voices.

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Writers, in fact,

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it's really important you give them a storytelling voice

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early on, building their confidence

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and helping them believe their writers

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before they put pen to paper.

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Think back now to session one,

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when we talked about the children not getting quality

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interactions at home, children spending most of their time

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inside in front of a screen.

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Children who don't get to play, who come

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to school unprepared for writing, both in their fine motor,

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but also lacking in experience, language, and creativity.

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And add to this, the opportunities

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for writing have decreased.

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So lots of children won't get to see their families write.

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So with technological change, there's lots

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of very exciting play you can do now

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as a child without really having

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to move off your sofa if you like.

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Tablets, phones, video games, all

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of all of those sorts of things.

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And my own view is that that brings lots

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of exciting possibilities to childhood

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and that we shouldn't position ourselves to say

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that there is a intrinsic problem

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with technology in young children,

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but it has to be part of a kind of balanced

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and healthy development for the child without

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Writing role models and the experiences to write about.

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Some children won't see the purpose in writing

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and they'll be really reluctant to even have a go,

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take away the pressure

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and create a safe space

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where children can write at their own pace, start

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by scribing,

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really extend their language

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before they put pencil to paper.

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It's going to take a lot of practice

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before writing is perfected.

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Your children are on a long journey,

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and at the core of writing is resilience and creativity.

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The activity of writing

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and the activity of creating

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what will be written are two separate things.

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Tales, toolkit, builds on both

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and sets children up with the skills that will help them

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to be successful writers all the way through school.

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I look forward to hearing your stories.
 

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