Early years practitioners will be in no doubt about the enthusiasm of young children for all things prehistoric. Anything that captures the interest and imagination in this way makes a motivational and inspiring context to develop children's confidence as well as a range of knowledge, skills and understandings.
When it comes to learning to read, children need a high level of engagement, they need to see what reading is good for, how it can bring pleasure in various ways - through emotional engagement, through satisfying curiosity and a 'need to know.' With careful planning and effective use of resources, a dinosaur topic can enhance children's development in all aspects of the reading process, including their growing awareness of the relationship between letters and sounds.
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