S8 E2 - 5 Early Years Practices That Deserve a Comeback: Part 2

Dramatic play, screen-free singing and nursery rhymes deserve a place back in the early years classroom. Part two of this series makes that case with a structured literacy lens. The episode covers using café role-play to build the background knowledge texts assume. It shows how songs at transition times can double as phonological awareness practice. It also looks at why “tuffet” and “curds and whey” still earn their keep. Throughout, the line stays clear: these practices aren’t reading ...