Enjoy sharing books with an adult. Have favourite books and seek them out.
Nursery Key Authors Eric Carle & Mick Inkpen
Promoting the importance of reading through incentives such as reading raffles, star readers, class target walls.
Develop phonological awareness. Understand that text is read from left to right and has meaning. Join in with songs and rhymes. Sing songs independently.
Develop play around favourite stories using props.
Repeat words and phrases from familiar stories. Share ideas and ask questions. We use Key Author texts as rich texts to read independently, as whole class and to inspire writing.
Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary.