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Communication, language and literacy

Principles * Providing opportunities for children to communicate thoughts, ideas and feelings and build up relationships with adults and each other (p44)

* Providing opportunities for children to communicate thoughts, ideas and feelings and build up relationships with adults and each other (p44)

* Using communication, language and literacy in every part of the curriculum (p45)

Early learning goals

* Use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences (p58)

* Use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events (p58)

* Show an understanding of the main elements of stories, such as main character, sequence of events, and openings, and how information can be found in non-fiction texts to answer questions about where, who, why and how (p62)

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