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written language
by
providing
interesting
and
stimulating play
opportunities.
Literacy
•
(Reading, Speaking,
Writing)
•
Notice
and •
support babies’
developing
responses as they
learn to anticipate
and join in with
finger and word
play.
•
Create personal
books using small
photo
albums
with
their
pictures
and
familiar everyday
•
objects.
•
Encourage
and •
support
children’s
responses
to
picture books and
stories you read
•
with them.
Create
an
attractive reading
area
where
children
and
adults can enjoy
•
books together.
Draw attention to
marks, signs and
symbols in the
environment and
talk about what •
they represent.
Write
down
things
children
say to support
their developing
understanding
that what they
say
can
be •
written down and
Provide
some
simple
poetry,
song, fiction and
non-fiction
books.
Create
an
environment rich
in print where
children
can
begin to read by
themselves.
Discuss
and
model ways of
finding
out
information from
texts.
Provide
some
simple
texts
which
children
can decode to
give
them
confidence and to
practise
their
developing skills.
Provide
word
banks and writing