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Communication, Language and Literacy for Look, Listen and Note and 8-20 months

Look, Listen and Note
Language for Communication

  • The sounds babies enjoy making and listening to.

  • Babies' developing vocabulary in their mother tongue, as well as English, noting which words are in English and which are in the home language. Note in which circumstances the different languages are used.

  • The signs or words babies use, noting any words in home languages, to communicate what they want, like or dislike.

  • Early support

    • Where babies look when you speak to them about objects and people nearby and when you point at the things and people you are talking about.

    • The different ways babies let you know that they understand what you say to them.

    • Occasions when babies begin to point.

    • How babies participate in simple routines such as waving 'bye bye'.

    • Examples of babies learning to play their part in a conversation. Do they stop vocalising when you are talking and wait for their 'turn'?

    • How babies use voice, gesture and words to attract attention, ask for things and refuse things.

    • How babies react when their name is called.

    • How babies watch and listen to other people who are talking.

    • The ways in which babies respond when you look at a picture book together and you talk about the items on the page.

Language for Thinking

  • The ways in which babies show you they have understood.

Linking sounds and letters

  • The wide variety of sounds and words a baby produces.

  • Early support

    • The ways in which babies show they are learning to locate the direction from which sounds and voices are coming.

    • Examples of how babies respond to singing and rhymes.

    • How babies respond when they hear a familiar voice or when their name is called.

    • How babies imitate the sounds and intonation patterns of speech they hear around them.

    • The range of speech sounds used by babies as they begin to babble.

Reading

  • How babies' responses develop as they learn to anticipate and join in with finger and word play.

Writing

  • Babies' interest in marks, for example, the marks they make when they rub a rusk round the tray of a feeding chair.

Handwriting

  • The movements and sounds babies make as they explore materials such as musical instruments, paint, dough, glue and the space around them.

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