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- Listens to and joins in with stories and poems, when reading one-to-one and in small groups
- Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories
- Begins to be aware of the way stories are structured, and to tell own stories
- Talks about events and principal characters in stories and suggests how the story might end
- Shows interest in illustrations and words in print and digital books and words in the environment
- Recognises familiar words and signs such as own name, advertising logos and screen icons
- Looks at and enjoys print and digital books independently
- Knows that print carries meaning and, in English, is read from left to right and top to bottom
- Knows information can be relayed through signs and symbols in various forms (e.g. printed materials, digital screens and environmental print)
- Handles books and touch screen technology carefully and the correct way up with growing competence
- Begins to navigate apps and websites on digital media using drop down menu to select websites and icons to select apps
- Begins to develop phonological and phonemic awareness
- Shows awareness of rhyme and alliteration
- Recognises rhythm in spoken words, songs, poems and rhymes
- Claps or taps the syllables in words during sound play
- Hears and says the initial sound in words
