Use strategies to plan activities which encourage: speaking and listening, reading, sustained shared thinking, writing, digital literacy

Qualification: Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator
Unit: Unit 3.5: Develop emergent literacy skills of children
Learning outcome: 5 Be able to plan activities to support emergent literacy
Assessment criteria: 5.2 Use strategies to plan activities which encourage: speaking and listening, reading, sustained shared thinking, writing, digital literacy

• We explored some activities in the previous section
• Speaking & listening: roleplay, nursery rhymes, word/sound games
• Reading: books/storytelling, reading ingredients for a recipe
• Sustained Shared Thinking: scavenger hunts, reading and talking about a story
• Writing: mark-making, writing mothers/fathers day cards, writing name on arts/craft projects
• Digital Literacy: digital storybooks, tablet games, smart boards