Literacy Workshop

Literacy is one of the four specific areas within the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). Children learn about literacy through play. At Ibtikaar nursery we provide a variety of daily activities that is meaningful to children learning and exploring. To help you understand how we teach literacy through play please attend our workshop to support your child's literacy skills at home.

Workshop agenda’s will be provided on arrival. Please have a look at our curriculum and the following websites. It will give you good insight into how learning in early years takes place.

Literacy Curriculum in the EYFS

Language and Communication:

Speaking clearly and grammatically
Listening carefully
Acting out stories
Singing songs with actions and intonation
Taking part in ‘show and tell’ sessions
Making up stories, rhymes and poems

Introduction to reading be:

Naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet
Linking sounds to letters (phonics)
Recognising groups of letters
Hearing and saying sounds in words
Recognising familiar and common words
Understanding a story has a beginning, middle and end

Introducing Writing:

Using mark-making tools
Using a pencil and holding it correctly
Writing recognisable letters, mostly formed correctly and facing the right way
Writing their name
Writing labels, captions and mini books
Using phonics to write simple consonant-vowel-consonant words, and having a go at more complicated words
Beginning to form simple sentences
Using basic punctuation
Beginning to learn to spell