Hi,
Unit 3.5 working with others to support children's literacy
Consider the partnerships that your setting has in place (with parents/colleagues/individuals and organisations outside the setting?) who do you work with?
and then, how would you say you work together to support children's literacy?
Literacy as defined by
EYFS early learning outcomes involves:
Reading:
(goals for the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage:)- Children read and understand simple sentences.
- They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately.
- They also read some common irregular words.
- They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.
and Writing:
(goals for the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage:)- Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds.
- They also write some irregular common words.
- They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others.
- Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
Page 226 of the EYE handbook offers this:
Parents play a huge role in the developpment of children's speech and language. It is parents' voices that children first hear and children's interest in learning to talk begins with this. Intersstingly parentsa are often good at tuning in accurately to their child's level of langiage and, in turn, children are very responsive to the attention of their parents. This means that, when parents spend time talking and chatitng to their children, children's progress in communication and language is often smooth.
In addition, when parents share books with their children, it seems to have a significant impact on children's interest and progress in reading. Parents play such an important role in children's emergent literacy, so it is essential to recognise this and to exchange information with them. Ealry years settings do this in a variety of ways, including lending books, creating stroysacks and also sharing with parents, books that their child has enjoyed in the setting.
Speech and language therapists: as speech and language are so important to literacy, children who are not making good progress in their language or who may have difficulities in pronouncing or hearing certain letter sounds may need additional support. Speech and language therapists assess children's needs and offer advice or work directly with children to enable them to make progress.
Occupational therapists: Some children may need additional support in order to cope with the physical process of literacy as they may have difficulties in coordinating or using the fine or gross motor skills associated with writing or Holding a book. Occupational therapists who are involved with children will aim to maximise their movements and to find ways of helping children to access literacy.
Hope this helps, best wishes with the end of the unit xx