The proposed educational programme for Communication and Language in the Government’s EYFS consultation is better than it was in the pilot version in that there is more emphasis on conversation and less on reading to children. However, as in the rest of the educational programmes, there is scant recognition that the EYFS is a birth to five key stage.
MAKING SENSE OF THE WORLD
Unlike older children who can relate to decontextualised language, such as they might hear from text read aloud, babies and younger children need to make immediate connections to their experiences and sensory input in order to make sense of the world and the words they hear.
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