Video transcript – Making literacy connection: Sample materials to print

This video demonstrates the use of materials and print media by two children to create literacy connections. The role of play and child interactions is highlighted. Viewers may reflect on how children’s learning is supported through experiences that encourage active and collaborative participation. 

00:00 – 00:05
Audio: [Music]
Visual description: The ECRH logo followed by the video title appear on a white background: ECRH, Early Childhood Resource Hub. Making literacy connection: sample materials to print.

00:06 – 00:11
Audio: [Sounds of children and educators talking and playing inside the service.]
Educator 1 [from off-screen]: Good girl. 
Boy [from off-screen]: Oh!
Educator 1 [from off-screen]: Beetle.
Educator 2 [from off-screen]: Do you remember?
Girl [from off-screen]: Ooooooh.
Educator 1 [from off-screen]: Beetle.
Visual description: In close-up, the camera pans across a white tray on a desk with several clear acrylic blocks containing a variety of bugs, as well as a large, printed colour booklet titled ‘Bugs & Insects’. The booklet cover features images of the bugs and insects in the acrylic blocks.

00:12 – 00:50
Audio: [Sounds of children and educators talking and playing inside the service.]
Boy: Ohhh!
Boy: [gasps]
Educator 2 [from off-screen]: ‘B’. ‘B’.
Girl: [gasps] Oh!
Educator 2 [from off-screen]: Spider. Spider.
Boy: Let me look.
Girl: That’s the same. They’re the same.
Boy: This goes with this.
Girl: No…
Boy: Ooooh!
Educator 2 [from off-screen]: Good work. Good job.
Girl: This one. 
Boy: Oh, I’m looking at this one!
Visual description: A boy and a girl sit at the desk pointing to the ‘Bug & Insect’ booklet cover before they begin to match the insect blocks with the images on the cover. The blocks are the same size and colour as the cover images. The girl and boy take turns checking and placing the blocks on different images. The girl drops her booklet on the floor, bending down to retrieve it. She returns to one of the blocks and tries to match it to an image.

00:51 – 01:23
Audio: [Sounds of children and educators talking and playing inside the service.]
Boy: Janine. Janine.
Janine: I’m looking at this. 
Boy: Janine. Janine, look!
Boy: [laughs]
Janine: No, this is my…
Boy: Look.
Child [from off-screen]: What’s this called?
Educator 2 [from off-screen]: Millipede.
Child [from off-screen]: Millipede.
Educator 2 [from off-screen]: Millipede.
Visual description: Janine jumps up and looks through other colourful booklets. The boy pats her back to get her attention. Janine sits down and looks at the boy’s booklet. Janine picks up a new booklet before returning to the pile to find another. 

01:24 – 01:53
Audio: [Sounds of children and educators talking and playing inside the service.]
Janine: Is this from here?
Boy: Look!
Child [from off-screen]: Fly.
Educator 2 [from off-screen]: Fly.
Boy: [gasps]
Boy: Look.
Janine: That one! Pink flowers.
Boy: Oh, I’ve been there. 
Child [from off-screen]: Beetle.
Boy: I’ve been there.
Janine: And I’ve been there too.
Boy: I’ve been there. 
Janine: I’ve been there.
Boy: I’ve been there. 
Janine: I’ve been there too. 
Boy: I’ve been everywhere. 
Janine: I’ve been everywhere too. 
Boy: Was too…
Visual description: The boy points to picture of a plant in the booklet. Janine leans towards the boy and then points to another image of pink flowers on his sheet. Janine and the boy point back and forth at different pictures of plants in the boy’s booklet. Janine jumps up from her chair and walks into the room.

01:54 – 02:03
Audio: [Music]
Visual description: The ECRH logo followed by the video production credits and copyright appear on a white background: ECRH, Early Childhood Resource Hub. www.ecrh.edu.au. Copyright 2015 Commonwealth of Australia. Source: National Quality Standard Professional Learning Program – Early Childhood Australia.

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