Bolton Start Well

Here you'll find useful tips to share with your team and families to support communication and language development in your setting and in the home learning environment.

Monthly Tips to Promote Communication and Language

New tips are available at the beginning of every month. You can access these ready-made resources to help you continually reflect on and improve your practice.

If you would like any further support around the use of these resources, please contact: Startwell@bolton.gov.uk and request support from one of the Early Years Consultants. 

Guidance for tips of the month
Guidance for the use of monthly speech, language and communication development tips for practitioners.

Tips of the month for practitioners
Monthly tips to update practitioners on key areas of speech, language and communication development.

Tips of the month for parents
Monthly tips which practitioners can share with parents to encourage activities in the home learning environment to promote communication and language development.

Songs and rhyme of the month
A monthly card to share with children and parents.

Routines Tips
Routine cards to share with children and parents. Topics include, Bathtime, Bedtime,Teatime, Nappy changing, On the beach and In the park.  On each card, you'll find suggested stories and rymes to share.

Greater Manchester 10 Tips for Talking

The Greater Manchester (GM) 10 Tips for Talking share key messages to support the development of language and communication skills for babies and young children and can be used by everyone. 

They include resources which have been developed to showcase the tips including a printable leaflet and poster, video clips of children speaking the tips and the tips have also been translated into a number of commonly spoken languages across Greater Manchester. 

Access here: Greater Manchester's early years resources - Greater Manchester Combined Authority (greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk)

The Communication Trust

From April 2021 the resources developed by The Communication Trust (TCT) are being hosted on the Speech and Language UK website - we hope you will continue to find these useful.