The Early Learning Goals for the new foundation stage are strong on key skills and lists of objectives. But practitioners, and families, may find it more helpful to concentrate on young children's enthusiasms, drives and innate language competence. This particularly applies to the area of communication and language, where the powerful linking of our innate capacity for language with a strong drive in infancy to bond with carers and join a human community is the making of us all.
The QCA working party advising on the new curriculum framework wants this area of learning to be renamed 'communication, language and literacy' to take account of the importance of verbal and non-verbal communication in our development.
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