- Read aloud to children every day, introducing children to a wide variety of literature, and talking about the print and digital books you share.
- Encourage children to tell their own stories in their own way, to take the lead in storytelling so you can listen and learn from children about what they know and are interested in.
- Discuss and model ways of finding out information from non-fiction texts in print books, digital resources and online.
- Encourage children to add to their first-hand experience of the world by seeking information using print and digital sources of information.
- Encourage children to recall words they see frequently, such as their own and friends’ names.
- Model oral blending of sounds to make words in everyday contexts, eg ‘Can you get your h-a-t hat’
- Play games to help children make links between letters (graphemes) and speech sounds (phonemes), such as letter bingo and linking actions with sounds.
- Model how simple words can be segmented into sounds and blended together to make words
- Consider teaching Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) such as British Sign Language.
- Support and scaffold individual children’s reading as opportunities arise with print and digital texts.
