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Literacy at Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1d. Texts and making them accessible
The texts we ask children to read make a difference to their experience of learning to read. We have a profusion of extraordinarily rich and varied picture books published in English, with which to entice children into different worlds and different ways of using language, while they learn to lift the words off the page and make sense of them.
Well chosen stories and poems have the power to enlarge children’s understanding of their inner worlds, giving shape to their feelings, and supplying them with a widening sense of the possibility and power of language.
It is essential for student teachers to think about resourcing their classroom with a wide range of fiction, non fiction and poetry in order to address the range of texts for boys and girls mentioned in the NC Programmes of Study.
Yet many student teachers have little knowledge of this rich profusion, and think that reading schemes are the only texts that should be given to inexperienced readers. Student teachers need to learn:
- what texts are available;
- what pleasures they can provide;
- what other lessons children can learn from them;
- how they can be used in the classroom.
 
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