resources to promote talking

**PRINCESSDAISYFLOWER** · 23-03-2011, 05:22 PM

If you had £500 to spend on resources to promote talking (ECAT) in your setting what would you spend it on?

**sarah707** · 23-03-2011, 06:15 PM

Communication friendly spaces stuff from Elizabeth Jarman.

I met her she's an ace lady and has some very good (but quite expensive) resources I would love

**sillysausage** · 23-03-2011, 10:29 PM

storysacks? puppets?

**AnnieM** · 24-03-2011, 11:28 AM

They have some nice stuff on the tts website. I like the talking tubes and the phones where you listen to yourself talking. Also the recordable photo albums look good.

Wow, £500 I would really enjoy spending that, I just got the book 'a place to talk at my childminders' so going to sit and read it tonight for inspiration.

**miffy** · 24-03-2011, 12:01 PM

Some nice ideas here

http://www.tts-group.co.uk/shops/tts...4-db061330060b

Miffy xx

**Andrea08** · 24-03-2011, 04:51 PM

tent and soft mats for a good outdoor quite / story area, nice in summer for circle time outdoors and bring indoors for winter,

some new books, story sacks, small world play,

lucky you xxx

**Blaze** · 24-03-2011, 05:01 PM

I'm very jealous - I did ECAT & we got the Elizabeth Jamrman book...that I already had!

**Alibali** · 24-03-2011, 07:49 PM

I've decided not to encourage any talking with future mindees, my lot are all too fluent with their speech

Never get a quiet moment

**Pixie dust** · 24-03-2011, 08:13 PM

When I did Ecat we were given tuff cams/microphones/talking photo albums/talking post cards/finger puppets+books

**manjay** · 24-03-2011, 08:15 PM

I have just spent a £300 grant on the Elizabeth Jarman site

**little miss chatterbox** · 24-03-2011, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by Alibali

I've decided not to encourage any talking with future mindees, my lot are all too fluent with their speech

Never get a quiet moment

could we get away with that?????? Wonder what ofsted's view would be!

**hello kitty** · 24-03-2011, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by sarah707

Communication friendly spaces stuff from Elizabeth Jarman.

I met her she's an ace lady and has some very good (but quite expensive) resources I would love

She's talking at my local childminding conference this year.