Let children handle books and draw their attention to pictures.
Tell and read stories, looking at and interacting with young babies, and using voice, intonation and gesture to prompt babies’ interactions.
Draw on children’s home cultures to create meaningful reading experiences.
Make family stories using small photo albums or story apps with photos of family members, significant people in the child’s life and familiar everyday objects.
Expand these to include the stories, songs, rhymes and lives of those in local communities and wider histories and cultures.
Provide opportunities for children to explore sound with drums, other instruments, kitchen pans and wooden spoons or upcycled resources.
