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Communication, Language and Literacy underpins all learning. We provide the children with the opportunities to explore a variety of activities in order to enrich their skills of communication to enable them to function effectively as a member of society. Spot's family collage

Programme of Work

The nursery will provide a wide range of opportunities and experiences through which language skills can be developed and promoted. These opportunities and experiences will be gained through a programme of activities based upon general and topic work. There will be a mixture of individual, group and adult directed activities which will be based upon structured play.

The programme will include some or all of the following types of activity:

Talking:

  • One-to-one discussions.
  • Group discussions.
  • Role play.
  • Reciting poems as a group.
  • Singing nursery rhymes as a group.
  • Encouraging children to make up and tell stories based on pictures.
  • Story telling followed by discussion about the story.

Listening:

  • Story telling to individuals.
  • Story telling to groups.
  • Sound lotto games.
  • ‘Sound Walks’ focusing on what can be heard on a street or in a park.
  • Giving the children simple instructions to follow.
  • Asking the children to listen for a particular character or event in a story.

Reading:

  • Sorting and matching toys and games.
  • Sequencing activities.
  • Labelling of coat hooks and other personal items with the child’s name.
  • Story telling to individuals, following the story through the pages of a book - pointing to the words as they are read if appropriate.
  • Story telling to groups, following the story through the pages of a large book - pointing to the words as they are read if appropriate.
  • Labelling displays and other items in the nursery.
  • Games matching sounds to letter symbols.
  • Reading corner for free play with books.
  • Displays of items starting with a particular letter.

Writing:

  • Sorting and matching toys and games.
  • Sequencing activities.
  • Free play with paper and writing equipment.
  • Modelling with play-dough and clay.
  • Colouring.
  • Tracing over lines, shapes and letters.
  • Copying lines, shapes and letters.
  • Dot-to-dot drawings.
  • Pathway drawing activities.

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