Changing lives through literacy, together.
Young children begin their journey into language and literacy with the adults who care for and teach them. That means each of us has a role in nurturing these foundational skills!
With our beautiful new website, sponsored by Shine Literacy, we are thrilled to share valuable childhood literacy resources and courses with even more families and educators.
Sign up to our site for easy access to resources and courses. Change lives, through the power of literacy.
Find the resources and courses you need
Our work is underpinned by sound research and developed for our context, in our languages, for our children. If you want to support young children’s learning – our literacy hub is for you!
Skills resources
Are you looking for creative early language and literacy ideas?
Our skills resources are designed to support informal learning at home and to supplement learning programmes.
They are packed with ideas to help you lay foundations for confident reading and writing while children have fun! Explore a wide range of multilingual games, activities, and stories, free to download once you’ve signed up on our site.
Programme resources
Are you looking for a high-quality early literacy programme? Our programme resources are designed to equip literacy champions to work with children and their parents. Read about our programmes. They provide sequenced activities, step by step guidance, and beautiful learning resources to ensure dynamic classrooms, effective learner support and successful parent workshops.
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Online courses
Our courses will change how you understand early language and emergent literacy! They introduce new ideas and offer practical ideas and activities to help you build early literacy and language skills. Invest time in your own growth and lay foundations for reading with meaning. You receive free course registration and ongoing support when you use a Wordworks programme.
Explore our coursesFind a strong early literacy partner
If your organisation is interested in using our structured literacy programmes, we offer training and resources, to help you use the programmes in your community. We welcome new programme partnerships that build early literacy and language skills for young children, their educators and caregivers.
Your organisation can also integrate our open-licensed resources into your own materials, collaborate with us on innovative projects, or enrol your team on training of trainer courses. We value partnerships that share our goals and enjoy working together to build early literacy.
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We share our literacy resources and courses with thousands of dedicated people who work with and care for young children.
Wordworks
trains and shares resources with partners, building an early literacy network.Partners
include individuals, schools, ECD centres, organisations and government.Adults
who care for and work with children use our programmes and resources in homes, schools, ECD centres and in communities.
