Skill:

  What is it?

  Why do we do it?

 Story Prompts

We will encourage children to interact with the story/songs. 

This teaches stories have a structure (e.g. beginning, middle, end) and helps them to have fun reading.

 The world   around us

We will read stories that show the world around us. 

This allows the children to identify with the book through the things they do e.g. brushing their teeth and
gives them vocabularly for the things in their world.

 Reading

Read with children to help them identify
characters and settings. 

This shows children how they fit in to the world around them and helps give them a framework for new learning.

 Sound   recognition

We will model that words are made up
of sounds and may have patterns.

This can be fun (e.g. Rhyming and silly sounds) but also teach them the sounds that go into the
words which they can then use to learn new words.

 Words

We will use stories with different words
so that children learn new words that help them describe their world.

Using books with words that repeat on multiple pages helps to promote recognition of words.

 The written word

We will model that books contain
information and that is filled with sentences which contain ideas.

By matching pictures to text, following the text with fingers and using text with non-traditional alignment,
children will learn that about books and that the text inside is used for education and entertainment purposes.