Listening and attention prompts This is a useful prompt to ensure that Listening and attention is covered and taught effectively towards the early learning goal. www.earlybirdyeducation.com

Listening and attention 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 in more depth. Plan lots of ‘speaking and listening’ sessions whereby children must listen to others ideas and opinions. Encourage children to question each other and plan lots of opportunity for children to mix with a wide variety of peers to heighten their listening and attention. For independent learning set up listening areas with different story CDs, musical instruments, recorded questions and listening bag. Expose children to a rage of rhyme and alliteration, encourage them to listen to sounds, words and rhythm in a text to help them predict what word, rhyme of action may take place next. Listening and attention Children listen attentively in a range of situations. They listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions. They give their attention to what others say and respond appropriately, while engaged in another activity. Extend independent play by using longer sand timers in each learning station. Create tick lists of children name sin each area to encourage them to try new activities and challenges. www.earlybirdyeducation.com