- Ask children to think in advance and predict how they will accomplish a task. Talk through and sequence the stages together.
- Enjoy sharing stories with individual children and small groups. Engage in sustained shared thinking with them to extend their thinking and use of vocabulary.
- Use appropriate vocabulary during play with children to encourage them to think about stories and cultural narratives.
- Use stories from books to focus children’s attention on predictions and explanations, eg Why did the boat tip over?
- Help children to
- identify patterns, eg what generally happens to good and wicked characters at the end of stories
- draw conclusions: The sky has gone dark. It must be going to rain
- explain effect: It fell over because it was too tall.
- predict: It might not grow in there if it is too dark.
- speculate: What if the bridge falls down?
