30 Minutes to Better Conversations

A FREE practical introduction to the ShREC approach

Looking for a quick, meaningful piece of Early Years CPD that you can actually use?

30 Minutes to Better Conversations is a FREE, ready-to-use mini CPD session introducing practitioners to the ShREC approach:

Share Attention • Respond • Expand • Conversation

Designed for Early Years practitioners, nursery teams, Reception staff, childminders and EYFS leaders, this resource can be used for:
a 30-minute staff meeting or INSET session
individual professional development
team discussion and reflection
a quick but purposeful CPD filler

The presentation explores how small changes to everyday adult-child interactions can create richer opportunities for communication and language.

Inside you’ll explore:
what each part of ShREC means
practical examples from everyday Early Years provision
the difference between questioning and genuine conversation
how to expand children’s language naturally
opportunities to reflect on your own interactions
simple strategies you can try straight away
how ShREC connects with Read • Play • Talk
presenter notes included

There are also discussion activities and prompts throughout, making it easy to deliver with a team without lots of preparation.

Simple. Practical. Immediately usable.

This PowerPoint is fully editable so you can adapt examples and discussion prompts for your own setting. Please keep the Read, Play, Create credit in place when sharing internally.

You don’t need another activity to support communication and language.
Sometimes, the opportunity is already there — it’s what we do with the interaction that matters.
Great experiences give children something to talk about.
Great interactions help them find the language to talk about it.

Created by Read, Play, Create.

This resource provides an introduction to ShREC and is not formal accredited ShREC training. ShREC resources and further professional learning from the Education Endowment Foundation are signposted within the pack.