Most early years practitioners would agree with the definition of teaching given on page 17 of the Early Years Foundation Stage document, which includes the planning of the learning environment; organising time and materials; interacting, working with and observing children; and assessing and recording children's progress and sharing this information with others.
However, contexts such as '...do some direct teaching of letter/sound correspondence (phonics)', make it sound like instructing.
'Instructing' is not in the definition of teaching given on page 23. This makes it important that we address the issue of direct teaching/ instructing in our responses to the EYFS consultation.
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