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8 • • Literacy • (Reading, Speaking, Writing) • • • Numeracy (Numbers, • Shapes, Space, Measure) • particular sounds Start to understand contextual clues Stops and look when hear own name • • Makes own sounds in response when talked by familiar adults Practises and gradually develops speech sounds Encourage babies’ sounds and babbling by copying their sounds in a turntaking conversation Handles books and printed materials with interest • Notices changes in numbers of objects/images or sounds in group up to 3 Encourage babies to join in tapping and clapping along to • • • • read stories Include things which excite young children’s curiosity Use talk to describe what children are doing Use sounds in play Use single words When they try to say a word repeat it back so they can hear the name of the object clearly Encourage and support children’s responses to picture books and stories you read to them • Prompt children’s thinking and discussion through involvement in their play • They use language as a powerful means of widening contacts, sharing feelings, experiences and thoughts They use simple sentences Use a variety of questions Extend vocabulary Describe main story settings Begins to read words Begins to break the flow of speech into words They use their phonic knowledge to write words Use number names and number language spontaneously Model and encourage the use of mathematical language Enable children to • • • • • • • • • Knows that things exist Talk to young children about few and lots. Provide collections of objects that can be sorted and • • •