Communication, Language and Literacy
Communication, Language and Literacy is about:
- Listening
- Talking
- Reading
- Writing
- Expression
- Communication
- Reasoning
- Stories
- Poetry….
By the end of the foundation stage, most children will be able to:
enjoy listening to and using spoken and written language, and readily turn to it in their play and learning;
explore and experiment with sounds, words, and texts;
listen with enjoyment and respond to stories, songs and other music, rhymes, and poems, and make up their own
stories, songs, rhymes, and poems;
use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences;
use talk to organise, sequence, and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings, and events;
sustain attentive listening, responding to what they have heard by relevant comments, questions, or actions;
interact with others, negotiating plans and activities and taking turns in conversation;
extend their vocabulary, exploring the meanings and sounds of new words;
retell narratives in the correct sequence, drawing on the language patterns of stories;
speak clearly and audibly with confidence and control and show awareness of the listener, for example by their
use of greetings, ‘please’, and ‘thank you’;
hear and say initial and final sounds in words, and short vowel sounds within words;
link sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet;
read a range of familiar and common words and simple sentences independently;
know that print carries meaning and, in English, is read from left to right and top to bottom;
show an understanding of the elements of stories, such as main character, sequence of events, and openings, and
how information can be found in non-fiction texts to answer questions about where, who, why and how.