Creative Program
1 Term | 3 & 4 year old kinder programs
Designed to complement your existing play-based program, our teachers visit your early learning service to model playful, intentional approaches to building vocabulary and oral comprehension through storytelling.
This term-long program uses high-quality picture books as the foundation for rich language learning and supports educators with practical strategies that are easy to replicate.
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Program structure
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Weekly on-site visits (30-minute sessions with up to 14 children)
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Up to 10 guided story-mapping sessions across the term
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Teacher Resource PDF
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All materials provided for the guided story stone activity (one set per child)
Our approach
Across the term, children and educators are supported through a cumulative and playful learning sequence:
Early weeks
We introduce high-quality picture books and model how to intentionally build vocabulary, background knowledge, and oral comprehension.
Ongoing
We model a range of story-mapping techniques for educators, demonstrating simple and effective ways to explore narrative structure and language within everyday practice.
Mid-program
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.
Final weeks
Children design their own story stones—hand-drawn symbols representing characters or events—which become take-home tools to support storytelling at home.
Family engagement
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Digital PDF for families with practical guidance for using story stones to support oral language and storytelling at home
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Child designed and drawn story stones with a carry pouch, providing a meaningful take-home tool
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Clear alignment with the learning children are experiencing in their early learning setting, supporting continuity between home and service-based learning