Oral language skills are fundamental to communication and social development and of course to all academic learning. There are lots of opportunities to weave practice for these into daily life, but in a group situation, some children can still slip through and there is value in doing a focussed activity with a small number – and the children spark each other’s learning then.

On Monday we had children telling stories about their fish cards – and it showed again how important STORY is to language and learning.