The Rose Report recognises the importance of both a rich curriculum with plenty of speaking and listening, and of teachers' professional judgment in reception classes. Following our campaign against the inflexible imposition of phonics teaching too early, EYCG is planning an anthology of words from children that show how they make sense of the world in their own way.
We plan to put a book together in November. It will make it clear that children need to understand the purpose of phonics before they can make sense of this approach. We welcome contributions from Nursery World readers, who have examples of three- and four-year-olds' responses to reading, writing and spelling which illustrate the futility of insisting on a single, inflexible approach. For example, Belle had a baby board picture book. Beside the pictures were lower-case initial letters. The first was an apple. Belle took the book to her mother and asked her what the letter was.
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