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.