Andree talks about strategies for language & literacy (0:44)

So it is all hands on, it’s all demonstration.  Them watching me and picking up from that, I suppose.  I do have a range of books that were developed for this sort of training, from an actually an Aboriginal guy himself in Darwin.  I still find them – they’re – they’re great, pictures in them are great, pictorial stuff, but I still find them a little bit advanced and above the girls’ abilities to read and write, I suppose is, yeah – comprehend English and – yeah, it’s quite – it’s quite technical.  And so I try to simplify things for them and – and, you know, speak in simple language that they understand, and make stories for them. 

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