Outcome

• Listens with interest to the noises adults make when they read stories.
• Understands ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’ in simple questions (e.g. Who’s that/can? What’s that? Where is.?).
• Using gestures to support meaning in play
• To use talk in play to practice new vocabulary

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• Has some favourite stories, rhymes, songs, poems or jingles
• Repeats words or phrases from familiar stories.

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• To be curious about people and show interest in stories about their self and and family
• I can talk about what I was like when I was a baby

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• Shows interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes
• Shows an interest in the way musical instruments sound.
• Engages in imaginative role-play based on own first-hand experiences.
• Using gestures to support meaning in play
• To use talk in play to practice new vocabulary

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• Fills in the missing word or phrase in a known rhyme, story or game, e.g. ‘Humpty Dumpty sat on a …’.
• Looks at books independently.
• Turns pages in a book, sometimes several at once.

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• Remember and talk about significant events in my own experience

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• Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall.
• Uses a variety of questions (e.g. what, where, who).
• To look at someone who is speaking to them
• To take turns to speak when working in a group

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• Listens to and joins in with stories and poems, one-to-one and also in small groups.
• Shows interest in illustrations and print in books and print in the environment.
• Handles books carefully.
• Knows information can be relayed in the form of print

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• During pretend play children can imitate everyday actions and events from my own family and cultural background

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• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
• Uses a range of tenses (e.g. play, playing, will play, played).
• Uses intonation, rhythm and phrasing to make the meaning clear to others.
• Taps out simple repeated rhythms.
• To look at someone who is speaking to them
• To take turns to speak when working in a group

Outcome

• Holds books the correct way up and turns pages
• Recognises rhythm in spoken words.
• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
• Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall.
• Recognises familiar words and signs such as own name and advertising logos.
  

Outcome

• To talk about environments in stories
• To talk about places visited (e.g.: the park/ASDA)

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• Can retell a simple past event in correct order (e.g. went down slide, hurt finger).
• Uses talk to connect ideas, explain what is happening and anticipate what might happen next, recall and relive past experiences.
• Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of things.
• To speak audibly so they can be heard and understood joins phrases with words such as ‘if’, ‘because’ ‘so’ ‘could’ ‘but’.

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• Enjoys rhyming and rhythmic activities.
• Shows awareness of rhyme and alliteration
• Suggests how the story might end
• Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured.
  

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• To talk about similarities and differences that connect children and distinguish them.

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• Beginning to understand ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions
• Beginning to use more complex sentences to link thoughts (e.g. using and, because).
• Questions why things happen and gives explanations.
• Asks e.g. who, what, when, how.
• To speak audibly so they can be heard and understood joins phrases with words such as ‘if’, ‘because’ ‘so’ ‘could’ ‘but’
  

Outcome

• Hears initial sounds in words
• Continues a rhyming string.
• Describes main story settings, events and principal characters.
  

Outcome

• I am beginning to talk about and describe changes in my environment