Aim
Understand the need to encourage and provide a variety of activities to support the development of literacy skills
Objectives
Group task
Identify activities and describe how they encourage and support children's literacy skills
Reflect on practice and state how your setting provides opportunities for literacy skill development
Importance of engaging babies and children in early reading development
Activities that support literacy skills
In groups choose one activity and state how it supports children's early literacy skills.
Refer to and link to prior learning.
Be prepared to feed back to your peer groups.
Evaluate how curriculum frameworks link to supporting the development of children's early literacy skills
Consider why this is important
Consider how you would do this.
List a variety of activities that support early literacy skills.
Create a spider graph
Refer to practice
Refer to practice
Activities linked to assignment
Consider how providing each of these activities support children's early literacy skills
- Consider these activities:
- Story sacks
- Story telling
- Role play
- Puppets
- Story and music CD's
- Circle time
- Small- world play
Importance of providing opportunities to develop literacy skills
Complete worksheet
- Being enthusiastic
- Being animated with your voice and actions
- Providing opportunities for children to read and be involved in rhymes and stories
- Action rhymes
Think of two more
As an early years practitioner, you must plan and provide a variety of activities that give children opportunities to develop early literacy skills.
Lets get active - Wakey Wakey
Does your setting do this?
How?
EYFS
Two areas of learning-
Literacy
Communication and Language
Broken down into strands.
Refer to your ELG,s to find out what these strands are.
Consider how this activity will encourage children's reading and literacy skills
- Language rich environment
- EYFS curriculum and ELG's
- Key stage 1 curriculum
KS1-
Spoken language
Reading
Writing
How do the above relate to supporting the literacy skills of children?
Understand the need to encourage and provide a variety of activities to support the development of literacy skills