Nursery World - Literacy and numeracy in role play

Literacy To develop children's communication, language and literacy skills, practitioners can provide:

To develop children's communication, language and literacy skills, practitioners can provide:

* telephones to promote communication and language development (they often stimulate children to use their 'voice')

* books, magazines, newspapers, etc, in a variety of scripts, junk mail and writing materials, so that children can recreate the purposeful reading and writing activity they see at home

* bedtime stories to be read to dolls and soft toys

* signs and labels reflecting real life, for example, food packaging, open/closed signs and 'keep out' signs

* taped stories

* playground chalk used out of doors to mark out and label role play areas, for example, the island where the pirates live

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