Children should interact with others, negotiating plans and activities and taking turns in conversation.
Children should extend their vocabulary, exploring the meanings and sounds of new words.
Children should enjoy listening to and using spoken and written language, and readily turn to it in their play and learning.
They should sustain attentive listening, responding to what they have heard by relevant comments, questions or answers.
They should listen with enjoyment, and respond to stories, songs and other music, rhymes and poems and make up their own stories, songs, rhymes and poems.
Children should speak clearly and audibly with confidence and control and show awareness of the listener, for example by their use of conventions such as greetings,
“please” and “thank you”.
Children should hear and say initial and final sounds in words, and short vowel sounds within words.
They should link sounds to letters, naming and sounding letters of the alphabet.
They should use their phonic knowledge to write simple regular words and make phonetically plausible attempts at more complex words.
Children should use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences.
They should use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events.
Personal, social and emotional development
Communication, language and literacy
Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
