Tune into... Environmental Sounds

Improve listening skills using photo cards with real matching sound effects. CDs include listening games for children with different abilities, ideal for whole-class or small group sessions. Match audio to the 30 everyday activity cards for further learning.

Learning Outcomes:

EYSF Profile 2019

ELG 01 Listening and attention:

• Children listen attentively in a range of situations

Letters and Sounds Phase 1 Seven Aspects

• Aspect 1: General sound discrimination - environmental sounds

• Aspect 2: General sound discrimination - instrumental sounds

Each aspect is divided into three strands.

• Tuning into sounds (auditory discrimination)

• Listening and remembering sounds (auditory memory and sequencing)

• Talking about sounds (developing vocabulary and language comprehension).

Activities within the seven aspects are designed to help children:

1. listen attentively;

2. enlarge their vocabulary;

3. speak confidently to adults and other children;

The ways in which practitioners and teachers interact and talk with children are critical to developing children’s speaking and listening. This needs to be kept in mind throughout all phase one activities.