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)
The local vegetable market could be an equally exciting place full of new sights and sounds! The doctor’s clinic, bus depot, post office and police station could all introduce children to an unfamiliar but interesting world, teaching them many new
