As part of a wide-ranging review which will focus on making a 'smoother transition' for children moving from the Early Years Foundation Stage to the first year of primary school.
The Government review will also consider whether summer-born children should start school later.
Children's secretary Ed Balls set out the plans in a letter to Sir Jim Rose, who is leading the review, last week.
Mr Balls wrote, 'The primary curriculum must ensure that all pupils can build on their prior learning in the EYFS to develop the essential reading, writing, numeracy and personal skills they need in order to learn and develop ... You might also want to consider whether some aspects of the EYFS should be extended into the primary curriculum. This might include, for example, placing emphasis on the full range of areas of learning and development contained in the EYFS, including social and emotional areas of development, and widening the opportunities for child-initiated and play-based activity.'
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