Ready Steady

Ready Steady

About the importance of getting more words to kids before they start school – and told through hilarious and moving stories about “being little.” Ready Steady features insights from children in conversation with each other and “the experts”.

Episodes

June 30, 2022 27 mins
Books are a way of learning heaps of words- but what happens when you find a word that you don't know?

In this episode, we chat to Donna Bartley from ECTARC(Early Childhood Education Services and Training) to see how she reads to young kids.

Then we dive into a familiar tale- " The Real Estate Agent and The Three Goldilocks' " where three little girls find a mysterious, empty play village... or is it a display village?

And to bring it...
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It can be hard finding words to express feelings- especially when you are a little kid! "Being naughty" -like throwing a tantrum or crying -are just ways that little one's express what they're feeling... but what happens after they let these emotions out?

In this episode, we start off sinking into a conversation with Sarah Dean(a child psychologist) chatting about the importance of giving words to kids to regulate emotions.
Then, we ...
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June 1, 2022 13 mins
A long time ago
in a podcast far, far away...

Kids are the masters of questioning the world, so what better way to explore the galaxy with the biggest question of all... Where do babies come from?

Our journey begins with asking kids in community how they think babies enter this world, followed by the mind-bending story "Feel the Baby"- a little brother's take on what it's like to expect a baby.

We end our episode with our lovely gues...
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May 18, 2022 19 mins
Welcome to Ready Steady!

In this podcast series, kids from the Illawarra come together to share stories and speak to experts about how we all can get more words to little kids. "The 30 Million Word Gap" is a study that showed that the more words we hear when we're very young, the better chance we have at a bright future! That's what this series is all about.

To kick us off, we jump into a conversation with Donna Bartley from ECTARC(...
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June 21, 2021 1 min
The kids from Beyond Empathy explain what their Ready Steady podcast is about.
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