Talking points

By Julian Grenier, Nursery World, 5 October 2000

To implement the learning goals, think about what they mean to the children themselves, says Julian Grenier

To implement the learning goals, think about what they mean to the children themselves, says Julian Grenier Learning to read, and learning to write, are the formal objectives children first embark upon when they enter the Foundation Stage. But the  important question for practitioners to ask themselves is: where do reading and writing come from? The Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage helpfully describes this area of learning as 'Communication, language and literacy'. It is worth stopping to unpack those three terms a...

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