1. Early Years
  2. Literacy
  3. Breadth

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.