INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAMUI

Early Years Curriculum

Communication & Language

Speaking

Learning Objective - CL3.1

Communicates needs and feelings in a variety of ways including crying, gurgling, babbling and squealing.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • Birth - 11 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.2

Makes own sounds in response when talked to by familiar adults.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • Birth - 11 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.3

Lifts arms in anticipation of being picked up.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • Birth - 11 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.4

Practises and gradually develops speech sounds (babbling) to communicate with adults; says sounds like ‘baba, nono, gogo’.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • Birth - 11 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.5

Uses sounds in play, e.g. ‘brrrm’ for toy car.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 8 - 20 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.6

Uses single words.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 8 - 20 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.7

Frequently imitates words and sounds.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 8 - 20 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.8

Enjoys babbling and increasingly experiments with using sounds and words to communicate for a range of purposes (e.g. teddy, more, no, bye-bye.)

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 8 - 20 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.9

Uses pointing with eye gaze to make requests, and to share an interest.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 8 - 20 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.10

Creates personal words as they begin to develop language.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 8 - 20 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.11

Copies familiar expressions, e.g. ‘Oh dear’, ‘All gone’.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 16 - 26 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.12

Beginning to put two words together (e.g. ‘want ball’, ‘more juice’).

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 16 - 26 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.13

Uses different types of everyday words (nouns, verbs and adjectives, e.g. banana, go, sleep, hot).

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 16 - 26 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.14

Beginning to ask simple questions.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 16 - 26 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.15

Beginning to talk about people and things that are not present.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 16 - 26 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.16

Uses language as a powerful means of widening contacts, sharing feelings, experiences and thoughts.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 22 - 36 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.17

Holds a conversation, jumping from topic to topic.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 22 - 36 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.18

Learns new words very rapidly and is able to use them in communicating.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 22 - 36 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.19

Uses gestures, sometimes with limited talk, e.g. reaches toward toy, saying ‘I have it’.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 22 - 36 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.20

Uses a variety of questions (e.g. what, where, who).

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 22 - 36 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.21

Uses simple sentences (e.g.’ Mummy gonna work.’)

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 22 - 36 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.22

Beginning to use word endings (e.g. going, cats).

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 22 - 36 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.23

Beginning to use more complex sentences to link thoughts (e.g. using and, because).

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 22 - 36 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.24

Can retell a simple past event in correct order (e.g. went down slide, hurt finger).

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 22 - 36 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.25

Uses talk to connect ideas, explain what is happening and anticipate what might happen next, recall and relive past experiences.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 30 - 50 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.26

Questions why things happen and gives explanations. Asks e.g. who, what, when, how.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage

Learning Objective - CL3.27

Uses a range of tenses (e.g. play, playing, will play, played).

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage

Learning Objective - CL3.28

Uses intonation, rhythm and phrasing to make the meaning clear to others.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage

Learning Objective - CL3.29

Uses vocabulary focused on objects and people that are of particular importance to them.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 30 - 50 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.30

Builds up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of their experiences.

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 30 - 50 Months

Learning Objective - CL3.31

Uses talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play, e.g. ‘This box is my castle.’

  • National Curriculum of England - Early Years Foundation Stage
  • 30 - 50 Months