Cookery, Books and Play: Supporting Communication and Language
Our recent training entitled ‘Cookery, Books and Play’ explored how cookery can be used as a strong foundation to support children’s communication and language development.
Why cookery?
Cookery is an engaging first-hand experience for young children. It provides many opportunities to support communication and language, particularly through high quality interactions and opportunities to develop key vocabulary. Cookery also interconnects to
other areas of the curriculum and supports children’s play.
When considering how to develop communication and language in your setting, looking at the ‘shREC’ approach could be a useful starting point.
As Fliss James highlights in her blog on the approach, these simple and memorable strategies can be embedded into everyday practice - EEF blog: The ShREC approach – 4 evidence-informed strategies… | EEF