Principles
* Ensuring that there is time and space for children to focus on activities and experiences and develop their own interests (p28) * Planning experiences that help children develop autonomy and the disposition to learn (p28) Early learning goals * Continue to be interested, excited and motivated to learn (p32) * Be confident to try new activities, initiate ideas and speak in a familiar group (p32) Stepping stones * Show curiosity (p32) * Have a strong exploratory impulse (p32) * Display high levels of involvement in activities (p32)
COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY
Principles
* Providing for children to communicate thoughts, ideas and feelings and build up relationships with adults and each other (p44) * Modelling the use of language as a tool for thinking (p46) Early learning goals * Interacting with others, negotiating plans and activities and taking turns in conversation (p48) * Extend their vocabulary, exploring the meanings and sounds of new words (p52) * Use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events (p58) Stepping stones * Ask simple questions, often in the form of 'where' or 'what' (p48) * Use a widening range of words to express or elaborate ideas (p54) * Begin to make patterns in their experience through linking cause and effect, sequencing, ordering and grouping (p58)
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