Plenaries

August 20

• Family Literacy: Can This Approach Make a Difference? Vianne Timmons, SK
  • Slides

August 21

• If You Can Read This...: Linking Literacy, Crime, Health, and Injury Among Children and Youth , Robert Seymour Wright, NS
  • Slides

Atlantic Canada Showcase - August 21

Interactive

• Active Kids Tool Kit: Developing Physical Literacy in Young Children and Optimizing Active Play - Cindy Dickie, NB

• Handout
• Language Tips for Young Children
• Listening Cue Sheet
• Slides

• Literacy and Health: An Innovative Way of Meeting the Challenge in Northeastern New Brunswick - Nathalie Boivin, NB
  • Handout

• Antigonish Senior Safety Program “Empowering Seniors to Live Safe, Healthy and Independent Lives in Their Homes as Long as Possible - Kimberly Timmons, NS
  • Handouts
  • Slides

• Learning Through Play – Employment nd Literacy/ Apprenant en jouant – l'emploi et l’alphabétisation - Colette Arsenault, Caroline Arsenault et Jeannine Arsenault., PEI
  • Questions and Facts
  • What Can I Do

• Enhancing Social and Emotional Literacy - Hazel Clarke and Frances Cole, NL
  • What is Roots of Empathy

• The Long Reach of Early Child Development – "It Takes a Child to Raise the Village" - Jim Mustard and Susan DeWolf, NS
  • Handouts
  • Slides

Posterboard

• Mega-Bites and ABC’s: An Examination of the Use of Integrated Technology in an Early Literacy Healthy Eating Kindergarten Program - Alaina Roach O'Keefe, PEI
  • Poster

Curriculum Workshops

Case Study Application:
From Theory to Practice

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Resources:

• Impacts of Low Literacy in Rural New Brunswick – Rural Team New Brunswick, Rural Secretariat