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Best practice in early literacy and phonics

• Understanding and applying the simple view of reading

  Table for Initial Teacher Training showing Rose recommendations, children's experiences, practitioner knowledge, suggested reading materials and resources.

• Clear guidance on the development of children’s speaking and listening skills

  Clear guidance on developing children's speaking and listening skills informed by Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Primary National Strategy (PNS) Framework.

• The teaching of high quality, discrete, systematic phonic work

  The teaching of high-quality, discrete, systematic phonic work (as defined in the review) is the prime approach to learning to decode and encode.

• Embedding phonic work within a broad and rich language curriculum

  Phonic work set within a broad and rich language curriculum taking full account of the four interdependent strands of language and enlarging children's stock of words.

• The features of ‘Quality first teaching’

  The features of ‘Quality first teaching’ as exemplified by the PNS, showing how robust assessment of children's learning secures progression in phonic work and how literacy is developed across the curriculum from the Foundation Stage onwards.