What a fantastic opportunity for early years practitioners to demonstrate how a rich learning environment can be hugely effective in helping young children to develop reading, writing and numeracy skills.
Communicating is absolutely the most important thing we can do to encourage a young child's language development. However, we must also provide lots of opportunities through play for young children to explore language - using silly words, making up stories involving the children in the group, singing, rhyming and generally having fun, all helps children to develop a sense of language. We are fortunate enough to be working with children at that very special time of their development when they are just discovering their amazing abilities. I sometimes wonder if any of us really understand what a privileged position we are in.
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