* Providing opportunities for children to communicate thoughts, ideas and feelings and build up relationships with adults and each other (p44)
* Using communication, language and literacy in every part of the curriculum (p45)
Early learning goals
* Use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences (p58)
* Use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events (p58)
* Show an understanding of the main elements of stories, such as main character, sequence of events, and openings, and how information can be found in non-fiction texts to answer questions about where, who, why and how (p62)
Stepping stones
* Begin to use talk to pretend imaginary situations (p58)
* Know information can be relayed in the form of print (p62)
