Our Story Enthusiasts
We’ve noticed this week that Green Room children are super interested in stories! Children are accessing books independently, focusing on the pictures and sharing with their friends information about what they can see. Many children are also joining spontaneous storytelling sessions with their key adults, showing excellent engagement with narrative and language.
Our Core Books Approach
At The Limes, we use an approach focused on core books, which is a carefully designed method for teaching children how to become readers. This approach uses a thoughtfully selected set of books that are shared and revisited frequently with children, helping them become confident in storybook language whilst learning to attend to, participate in, and interact with stories.
Through frequent revisiting of these books, children practise, reimagine, and re-enact the stories, characters, and words. Our core books are carefully planned and resourced, with adults sharing reading behaviours to support children in understanding the meaning and purpose of reading and writing. These books ignite imagination by clearly linking strong, dynamic pictures to the story, and they support language development through a wide range of props, resources, and high-quality firsthand experiences.
Exploring the Shape of Books
Through our core books, children explore both the big shapes of books, such as story structure, literary styles, and rhythm of text, and the small shapes of books, including the print on the page and individual letters and sounds. We choose core books that encourage children to hear and make sounds in words whilst noticing and exploring rhythm and rhyme. Examples include popular titles that feature repetitive language and strong rhythmic patterns.
Our Current Focus
The core book we are currently focusing upon is “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” which offers terrific opportunities for character exploration, sequence understanding, and imaginative play.
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