All Modules B6-Development Matters in the early years | Page 29

ying and Exploring, Active Learning, and Creating and Thinking Critically support children’s learning across all areas

5 Literacy: Reading
A Unique Child:
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Positive Relationships:

observing what a child is learning

what adults could do

Enjoys looking at books and other printed material
with familiar people.
Explores books by chewing and shaking them
Imitates sounds and explore them
Enjoy looking at pictures

• Use finger play, rhymes and familiar songs from home to
support young babies’ enjoyment.
• Read to children more than twice daily

Enabling Environments:
what adults could provide
• Collect a range of board books, cloth books and stories
to share with young babies.
• Establish a language rich environment where print is
present in a natural and meaningful context
• Allow access to media like smart phones, tablets,
cameras etc.

Birth - 11
months
Handles books and printed material with interest.
Explores a variety of books and media including paper,
cardboard, vinyl, cloth, tablets, phones, cameras, etc.
7. Enjoys having the same story read again and again
8. Has favorite books and stories
9. Displays reading like behaviors
a. Turning pages and holding it
8-20 months 10. Begins to understand that prints carries out meaning but
reads different meanings every time
11. Responds by naming and pointing pictures

• Notice and support babies’ developing responses as they
learn to anticipate and join in with finger and word play.
• Read as much as you can to them using a variety of
literature forms
• Read and re-read
• Allow access to media and books
• Be aware that reading is a continuous process that
starts at b