Parent Workshops

Reading and writing, speaking and listening skills are the key lever for early success and survival in an increasingly competitive world.

We show parents and family members how to apply new knowledge to instantly improve spelling, reading and communication skills.

How language can be used to increase thinking skills and improve the depth and rate of understanding – the ability to demonstrate knowledge effectively.

We model the use of resources that increase every child’s aptitude, motivation and capacity for learning - which can be developed at home.

WPE Workshops provide the information you need to enable young people to be successful in the workplace.

  • Workshop A - An introduction to WordPower Express Workshop

    A 90 minute informal presentation and discussion:
    What is WPE? How does it help my child? What could it do for me?

  • Workshop B - 1 or 2 day workshops for parents / community leaders who wish to proactively support and significantly advance the reading, writing, speaking, listening skills of young children, adolescents, adults.

    These workshops are designed to progress the understanding and skills of the ‘most able’as well as those experiencing literacy difficulty or delay. They can include working with your own child.

  • Workshop C - Part or full time attendance during 3 and 5 day workshops, arranged through your school or college, to observe or work in partnership with your child.

Contact for more details – office@wordpowerexpress.com or call 01986 784400

How many words should a child know?

Talk with your child – not at your child

Once in a while turn the tv or computer game off and talk with your child
  • By the age of 3, research* shows that many children have acquired 30 million LESS words of spoken vocabulary than other children in their age group
  • Children from language impoverished homes heard on average 616 words an hour
  • Children from ‘language rich’ families heard on average 2176 words per hour
  • Children from language rich homes had an average vocabulary of 1116 words, compared with those from language impoverished homes, who had an average vocabulary of 525 words.

(*Hart and Risley ‘The Early Catastrophe’)
  • Parents speak less to their children if the television is on; in turn youngsters talk less
  • For every hour that the television is on, research* shows that parents speak between 500 and 1,000 fewer words to their children, aged between 2 months and 4 years.
  • This amounts to 770 fewer words over a typical day

(*Centre for Child Health, Behaviour and Development, published in the journal of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)

Testmonials

“We were anxious when we turned up – ready to form a ‘dough-nuts’ table of our own. When we saw that we were taking the same ‘learning journey’ as the teachers, the same ‘learning risks’ as the students, and that most times we could answer questions as easily as them, our confidence just grew and grew. Next time we are coming back as members of the parent support team – and we can’t wait”.

Parent

‘I enjoyed coming to the Word Power lesson because I got to show my dad how to learn, and how good I was at it.’

Student