12/07/2026
🔤📚 Learning Letters Through Play! 📚🔤
Our nursery children have been exploring early literacy by recognising letter sounds and matching them to familiar toys and objects. Through hands-on play, the children talked about the sounds they could hear at the beginning of words, identified letters, and made connections between sounds, letters and the world around them.
Using toys to support phonics makes learning meaningful, engaging and fun, helping children build the foundations for reading and writing while developing confidence in their communication skills.
✨ EYFS Links:
• Communication and Language – Developing vocabulary, listening skills and confidence through discussion.
• Literacy – Recognising letters, identifying initial sounds and beginning to link sounds with print.
• Understanding the World – Making connections between familiar objects and the letters they represent.
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development – Building confidence to participate, share ideas and celebrate achievements with friends.
Learning through play helps children discover that letters and sounds are all around them, laying strong foundations for their future reading journey! 🌟📖
