How to Teach Language and Literacy at Foundational Stage

In the early years, the teaching of language and literacy should provide children ample opportunities to explore themselves as readers and writers, along with providing a balance of learning ‘lower-order’ skills (e.g., phonological awareness, decoding, writing letters and words correctly) and ‘higher-order’ skills (e.g., oral language development, engaging with books, drawing, and original writing) which are meaning-focused.
National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage-2022

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