Developing baseline communication skills

Teachers often express concern about the many children who enter reception classes lacking the listening, understanding and speaking skills necessary to make a successful start to their school years. This practical resource, aimed at fostering personal and social development and promoting language and early literacy skills, seeks to address some of these problems.

• Provides two hundred games and activities suitable for children aged from 4 to 5 in both mainstream and special schools.
• Activities are graded into levels of difficulty, for whole classes or groups that can be easily incorporated into the existing school curriculum.
• Includes activities that can be carried out by teachers, classroom assistants or volunteers, with simple record sheets for optional use.