Wendy Rootring is the creator of Pretlettertjes, one of Europe’s most-loved preschool educational formats, reaching more than 100 million views and featured by YouTube EMEA for its positive impact on early language learning. At Naluna Studios, she designs and produces children’s content end-to-end: from script and educational design to animation direction and final production. Through Naluna Studios, Wendy explores how storytelling, digital environments and children’s media can better adapt to the developmental needs of young children.
Wendy creates stories that help very young children learn their first words and build confidence through calm, colourful and developmentally grounded Early Years storytelling.
In this session, Wendy discusses the storytelling structures that help young children engage, focus and begin using new words with confidence. She shares why calm pacing, repetition and deliberate pauses matter so much for toddlers, and why designing from the child’s perspective should sit at the heart of everything we do.
In this episode you’ll:
- Discover why predictability, not constant stimulation, builds toddlers’ confidence to join in
- Learn how deliberate pauses give young children the processing time adults often forget they need
- Find out how offering language in multiple ways at once supports children with SEND
- Hear why gently repeating a mispronounced word beats correcting it every time
- Explore how a mother’s search to reach her own son grew into content with over 100 million views
Watch the full episode now to discover practical, calm and child-centred storytelling strategies you can use in your setting straight away.
Episode Links:
https://www.youtube.com/@Pretlettertjes
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyrootring
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