https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-listen-and-play-index/zrrvhbk
The episodes on this website are all designed to support speech and language development in Nursery and Reception children.
Further information and guidance is available at the bottom of the page.
Playing puzzles with your child can help them to develop their receptive and expressive language (what they understand and what they say).
Playing a simple jigsaw or puzzle can develop many different communication skills, for example attention and listening, turn taking, verbal reasoning, description and positional language.
This website contains a number of different jigsaws ranging from easy to hard. You can use these puzzles as a starting point for a discussion.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/curations/cbeebies-jigsaw-puzzles
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/puzzles/type/puzzles-and-jigsaws#filter
Listening and attention skills form the basis of communication. If children find it difficult to listen to or pay attention to other people then this may impede their development in other areas of communication and learning.
Below are two videos which explain the importance of developing attention and listening skills. There are also some suggestions to help support teachers and parents.
The Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust also has resources in the children’s language resource section:
https://www.humber.nhs.uk/services/childrens-language-resources.htm
Look for:
The pack for attention.
The pack for developing listening and attention skills at Key Stage 1.
The pack for developing listening and attention Key Stage 2.
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