Hi, without language, speech or the confidence to communicate children's prospects for a productive, healthy, safe, successful and enjoyable life might well be limited.
Quote from talkingpoint.org.uk
Communication is the number one skill. Without it, children will struggle to make friends, learn and enjoy life.
This criteria helps you to examine how your setting provides opportunities for children to come across, see, touch and otherwise interact with language. Learning about words, letters and sentences. Does everyone speak to each other and communicate their feelings, ideas and needs through verbal and bodily actions.
Key factors for speech, language and communication - EYMP 4 thread
Explaining the terms speech, language and communication
To see how your setting has creating a language rich environment consider if you ..
Read aloud each day and have conversations with the children
Have text on walls, doors, ceilings
Use charts and lists as reference points
Have books available - maybe a library system
If you use all areas of the environment for notices/text and pictures especially unexpected areas - under tables and paper plates, hung on tree branches, inside pencil cases
Find impressive, and words that can be emphasised -
onomatopoeia,
homophones,
wow word ideas form lancs.gov.uk
How ceative do you get with words and letters, sentences, nouns and verbs? word play for early years
Say what you know in different ways
Professionally - how does the setting involve parents in children's speech, language and communicational development, what training is available for supporting SLC?
What makes a communication supportive environment - pacey.org.uk
Hth, best wishes
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