During nursery, children will do the following to develop their early reading skills:
- Develop vocabulary through a broad range of activities
- Access the attractive reading area, where books are read by adults and children tell their own stories
- Listen to and share rhymes, stories, books and songs
- Use labels and name cards in a print rich environment so that children learn that print conveys meaning
- Staff will emphasise the initial sounds in words
- Take part in fun activities to aid development of pre-reading skills
- Learn Phase 1 from the Letters and Sounds programme
- Learn the Oxford Reading Tree characters in readiness to begin reading when the child is ready
- Weekly Library time, when children take a book home
- Use the story chair to develop storytelling and story structure
