3 and 4 year olds: Literacy

• I enjoy having long conversations about stories and learning new words
• In my play, I am learning to use my knowledge of sounds and letters in my early writing
• I can write some or all of my name
• I can write some letters accurately

I understand five important things about print:

• print has meaning
• print can have different purposes
• we read English text from left to right and from top to bottom
• the names of the different parts of a book
• we read pages in story books one at a time

I am learning to tune into the different sounds in English. I am developing my phonological awareness, so that I can:

• spot and suggest rhymes
• count or clap syllables in a word
• recognise words with the same initial sound, such as money and mother