Support children and young people’s speech, language and communication skills
1.1 – Explain the ways in which adults can effectively support and extend the speech, language and communication development for each of the following age groups: 0-5, 5-11, 11-16, 16-25 1.2 – Evaluate relevant positive effects of adult support for children, young people and their families
There are many was that adults can help to extend children’s speech, language and communication.
Children who are in a nursery aged between 0-5 and 5-11 carry out phonics activities. Phonics enables children to experience regular, planned opportunities to listen and talk about what they hear, see and do.
Phonics is a six phase learning programme that is incorporated within nurseries and primary schools. It enables children to blend phonemes for reading and segmenting for spellings.
Phase one is aimed at the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) as it falls within the communication, language and literacy section. This phase recognises the importance of developing speaking and listening skills. This enables children to start a systematic programme then they are more likely to succeed. Within nurseries and primary school they carry out jolly phonics. Jolly phonics enables the children to learn the sounds of letters, this can be incorporated within a song to represent each letter of the alphabet for example for a you say; A A A Ants up my arm, you would say this doing a pinching movement up one of your arms. Within jolly phonics there are five skills that are taught, these include; learning the letter sounds this is when children are taught the 42 main letter sounds. This includes alphabet sounds as well as digraphs such as sh, th, ai and ue. Learning letter formation this is when children are able to use different multi-sensory methods, they learn how to form and write the letters. Blending is when children are taught how to blend the sounds together to read and write new words.