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Understand current frameworks in relation to emergent literacy.

This video from the Department for Education is ‘Early Years Foundation Stage: Exemplification materials – Case study 1’ looks at both communication and language, and literacy. How are the practitioner supporting the child to meet current framework requirements?

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‘Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage: Setting the standards for learning, development and care for children from birth to five’ from the Department for Education
‘The reading framework: Teaching the foundations of literacy’ from the Department for Education
‘Supporting children’s speech, language and communication development in early years settings in schools’ from Cumbria County Council Early Years Team.
Literacy in the early years: What children need to learn and how you can help them learn it’ from The Hanen Centre.

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This guidance report from the Education Endowment Foundation offers early years professionals seven practical evidence-based recommendations to provide every child – but particularly those from disadvantaged homes – with a high quality and well-rounded grounding in early literacy, language and communication. How could you use the recommendations in your setting?
Access resources, activity ideas and advice for teaching communication and language to early years children from the UK Government.
Access resources, activity ideas and advice for teaching literacy skills to early years children from the UK Government.
This webinar from Ofstednews is titled ‘Part 3 - Early years curriculum: Making progress through knowing and remembering more’. It discusses the ways that children make progress through knowing and remembering more.

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