Complete Program
2 Terms | 3 & 4 year old kinder programs
Designed to complement your play-based program, a SailAway coach visits your service to model playful, intentional early literacy practices. This two-term program combines on-site modelling, professional learning, and family engagement to create lasting impact across your service.​
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Program structure
On-site coaching
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Eight phonological awareness sessions
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Eight narrative-based sessions using stories to build vocabulary and background knowledge, nurture print awareness, build oral language and support emergent reading and writing
Staff workshops
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Four online or on-site workshops
Online professional development
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Nine self-paced modules with printable notes and games.
On-demand family workshop
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Helpful, easy-to-use games and activities to enjoy at home.
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Clear connections between home and early learning centre experiences
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Our Approach
Across the term, children and educators engage in explicit, playful phonological awareness learning:
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Children participate in carefully sequenced sessions targeting key phonological awareness skills essential for later literacy success
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Educators observe modelling, language, and routines that are practical, efficient, and easily replicated within existing play-based programs.
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Learning is cumulative, with skills revisited and strengthened across the term.
Narrative and language
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Carefully chosen stories that build vocabulary, oral language, print awareness, and fundamental reading and writing behaviours.
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Children are supported to create and map their own stories as a group, strengthening sequencing, expressive language, confidence, and collaborative storytelling skills. A program highlight.
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Children design their own story stones—hand-drawn symbols representing characters or events—which become take-home tools to support storytelling at home.
Professional learning workshops
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Service scoping and goal setting
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Develop and respond to coaching questions
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Progress checks, evaluation, and next steps
Online modules
Building on educators’ existing knowledge, we unpack
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The Science of Reading applied to early childhood settings
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Why explicit, intentional phonological awareness teaching matters
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How to teach key aspects of phonological awareness in playful, engaging ways
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Playful strategies for building vocabulary and background knowledge in preschool