Understanding prompts This is a useful prompt to ensure that Understanding is covered and taught effectively towards the early learning goals. www.earlybirdyeducation.com
Understanding www.earlybirdyeducation.com Provide real experiences for children to explore such as computers, key boards, type writer, washing machines, televisions , watches and mobiles. Can they take them apart? Use a variety of tools to let the children explore and take it apart to see various functions and materials. Can they answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions? Include lots of instructional writing and step by step guides in the learning environment For example:- Construction- step by step guide to build an aeroplane UW-Cooking instructions, how to make? Reading/writing- instructions for story characters Maths- positional instructions to follow a map Provide lots of role play stimulus off familiar stories and traditional tales e.g. puppets, props and costumes. Encourage children to act out a narrative and act out what they know. Introduce unfamiliar stories and a wide variety of text to encourage children to think about a text ad predict what may happen next. This will help develop early inference skills and help children to unpick and understand a text n more depth. Understanding Children follow instructions involving several ideas or actions. They answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events. Set up lots of experimental and open end activities such as sinking and floating, planting and growing, materials and change. Encourage children to question and speculate why things happen and comment on the observational change. www.earlybirdyeducation.com