Introduction to Bookmaking

with 3-8 Year Olds Mini-Course Term 3 2026
2 Day Mini Course

Facilitated by Mimi Hayward & Katie Ashmead

This Mini Course has a specific focus on working with 3 – 8 year old writers in Kindergarten and Early Years of School.

Are you looking for an engaging, playful approach for teaching young writers?

Do you want an approach that promotes a sense of agency and self-efficacy?

Are you searching for an approach that embraces an expansive, rather than narrow, definition of literacy?

BOOKMAKING is all of this and more!

Early Childhood Educators understand that young children bring with them a wealth of literacy understandings and competencies as they begin Kindergarten and Reception. The Book-making approach to literacy values and honours children’s prior learning, their cultural competence and their dispositions for learning. It uses these to drive learning deeper and to create a culture of thinking, talking and noticing about books. It values the intellectual quality of mark-making as an essential component of being a writer.

A book-making approach not only sees children from this competent lens, it empowers children to see themselves as competent writers. The approach challenges pedagogical practices that see children as empty learners; who are needy because they know so little.

Registrations close Tuesday 4 August at 6 pm ACDT