Nursery World - Speaking and listening, reading and writing

ICT offers huge support in children's development of communication skills. Let's have a look at some ICT activities that help with communication, language and literacy skills.

Let's have a look at some ICT activities that help with communication, language and literacy skills.

* Children should never use ICT in isolation. Used in the right way, ICT can be a great tool for developing speaking and listening skills. This could be children in pairs working on a computer, or involving ICT equipment in their role play. Take a look at www.hitchams.

suffolk.sch.uk/foundation/roleplay

* Develop reading and writing skills in role-play areas:

* Use ICT to make signs, charts, diaries and more. These could be printed for the children to write on, or on the computer for them to type/write into, such as creating a table in Word for the children to type into (see example).

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