Language for Communication and Thinking

Helping children develop their communication skills is one of the most important jobs you can do as a parent or teacher. That's because spoken communication is the key to so much in life that's important, from making friends and getting a good education to enjoying a successful career. Communication is the foundation for getting a great start in life.

ICAN 2008

Communication Friendly Spaces

Talking Tables

Storytelling

Every Child a Talker

Talk To Your Baby
A campaign run by the National Literacy Trust to encourage parents and carers to talk more to children from birth to three.

Speaking and Listening audit
Audit tool to evaluate and review the provision offered to young children that promote speaking and listening. From the CLLD Programme.

Language for Communication is about how children become communicators. Learning to listen and speak emerges out of non-verbal communication, which includes facial expression, eye contact, and hand gesture. These skills develop as children interact with others, listen to and use language, extend their vocabulary and experience stories, songs, poems and rhymes. Language for Thinking is about how children learn to use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences and how they use talk to clarify their thinking and ideas or to refer to events they have observed or are curious about.

EYFS Statutory Framework 2007

Talking Tables, YMCA Beginnings, Gainsborough

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