Helping your child to communicate

Communication is a key part of children’s early learning
Knowing more words at age 5 is strongly associated with doing better all the way through schooling. Children with good communication at 5 are much more likely to get good GCSE grades aged 16
It’s important to spend time chatting, playing and reading with your child. This helps them to develop their communication.
Here is a list of the first 100 words a child should know.
Using the ShREC approach helps us to supporting children’s communication.