• Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary.
• Develop their phonological awareness, so that they can: • spot and suggest rhymes • count or clap syllables in a word • recognise words with the same initial sound, such as money and mother.
• Understand the five key concepts about print:

• print has meaning

• print can have different purposes

• we read English text from left to right and from top to bottom

• the names of the different parts of a book

• page sequencing

• Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary.
• Write some or all of their name.