Breadth
Nursery 3-4 Years Old
- Go on a print walk, encouraging children to point out any signs they see.
- Recognising common signs such as stop, exit, and toilets.
- Reading and sharing stories and nonfiction books
- Daily storytime
- Revisiting core books
- Sing lots of action rhymes, encouraging children to join in the actions with whole-body movements.
- Listening to stories and talking about them.
- Listening games.
Reception 4-5 Years Old
- Introducing some common sight words.
- Finding common sight words and red words in texts
- Modelling intonation during daily story time.
- Using texts to increase children’s knowledge of the world.
- Question of the day/week.
- Writing for pleasure, signs, diary, lists, letters.
- Daily phonics.