Breadth
Birth to Three Years Old
- Playing with sounds and singing songs
- Communicating using facial expressions and gestures
- Using descriptive commentary
- Encouraging 2-way conversation with sounds, words, and gestures.
- Reading with the children and sharing stories and rhymes.
- Match plus one – extending vocabulary
- Building vocabulary, building on what children already know.
Nursery 3 - 4 Years Old
- Perform lots of action rhymes.
- Read lots of stories.
- Ask children to listen out for specific words. Link actions to the words
- Use puppets
- Use Makaton
- Tell Teddy or another child/adult: what is happening
Reception 4-5 Years Old
- Share songs, nursery rhymes and stories that feature rhymes.
- Start to change rhymes
- Make up your own rhymes and stories.
- Introduce new and sophisticated vocabulary each week.
- Use retrieval practice to help children to remember and use these words.
- Creating exciting new areas in the classroom. Allow children to find it and encourage discussions about what it is.