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Table of Contents
1. Learning to Listen
-Discrimination of sounds
-Social Listening
-Developing aural attention span
-Developing auditory memory
-Supporting children's listening
2. Time to talk
-Compensating for language delay
-Talk during child-initiated activities
-Vocabulary development
-Repetition and innovation
-Developing expressive language
-Social language skills
-Supporting talk during imaginative play
3. Music, movement and memory
-Development of steady beat, rhythm and rhyme
-Articulation and song
-Music and auditory memory
-Left-right brain interaction
-A musical setting
4. Storytime!
-Story-telling: developing listening skills
-Story-telling: developing speaking skills
-Reading aloud - five a day!
-Developing imaginative engagement
-Nurturing children's imaginations
5. Learning about print
-Awareness of print
-Alphabet knowledge
-Concepts about literacy
-Sight words
-Supporting children's involvement with print
6. Tuning into sound
-Phonological awareness
-Phonemic awareness
-Phonics: sound-symbol associations
-Supporting the development of phonic knowledge
7. Moving into writing
-Handwriting movements
-Letter formation
-Pencil control
-Shared writing
-Supporting emergent writing
8. Switching on the searchlights
-The Foundations of Literacy curriculum
-Fitting it in
-Creating the Culture
-Smooth transitions
Appendices
-Language development
-PREPARE chart
-The phonemes of English
-Handwriting groups and jingles for large-scale practice
-Stages in emergent writing
-Left-handed children
-FoL audit sheet for practitioners working with 3-4 year olds
-FoL audit sheet for practitioners working with 4-5 year olds
-FoL audit sheet for practitioners working with 5-6 year olds
-Phonics revisited
Practice Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stages and FoL
Further reading
Recommended resources
Product details
| Published | 20 Jul 2008 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 3rd |
| Extent | 136 |
| ISBN | 9781855397736 |
| Imprint | Network Continuum Education |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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