Teacher Talk Workbook Series – Book 3 – Fostering Peer Interaction in Early Childhood Settings

Fostering Peer Interaction in Early Childhood Settings is the third booklet in the Teacher Talk™ Booklet Series.

This booklet outlines key strategies for promoting peer play from the Learning Language and Loving™ guidebook, and includes fillable sections to help educators plan how they will apply the content with children in their care. The workbook helps educators create both the physical and social environments that encourage peer interaction and that create opportunities for all children to interact and have fun.

Fostering Peer Interaction in Early Childhood Settings supports educators to:

• Make the most effective use of space in the classroom to support peer interaction opportunities.
• Support more isolated children to interact.
• Encourage a variety of groupings for interaction.
• Provide appropriate materials and activities.
• Create reasons for interaction and provide specific coaching when needed.

• Outlines key strategies from the Learning Language and Loving It guidebook for encouraging and supporting peer interaction.
• Fillable sections to personalize the content and plan how to implement the strategies with particular children in various contexts.
• Illustrated examples of educators using the strategies.
• A Notes section for educators to record additional thoughts.