Summary
Contents
Subject index
This book focuses on the development of oral language skills and provides guidelines for setting objectives for activities, materials and preparation, key vocabulary, and directions for implementation.
Planning for Success
Planning for Success
This chapter looks at how planning, observation and assessment can enable practitioners to focus on both planned and impromptu opportunities to promote language development for children learning English as an additional language. There is also a checklist for staff to review their practice and ensure how well emerging bilingual children are settling into their nursery.
- Getting to know children through observation
- Assessment as a celebration of children's achievements
- Planning the curriculum.
Getting to Know Children Through Observation
Observation needs to take place in circumstances where children feel as relaxed as possible with the observation part of naturally occurring activity during the nursery day. Over a period of time the observations should cover the six areas of the Foundation Stage curriculum, both adult-led and child-initiated activities ...
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