There is a plethora of information, guidance, expectation, support and strategies around
language, speech, vocabulary as well as verbal and non-verbal communication. This issue informs on all of these in the context of early years. There are magic moments of how to develop adult-child interaction, there are links to language and self regulation. The importance of the home-corner and small world play and the benefits of keeping it familiar for children to practice language as well as play. Communication can also be the stimulus for imagination and thinking for both the staff and the children. An opportunity for staff to learn from the children, learn new books together, new language too if English is a second language. To always walk alongside the children when learning. Skills are also introduced and explained, dialogic reading and scaffolding.
