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Early Learning: Listen and Play
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Teacher's Notes - Spring 2010


Listen and Play is a 28 part audio resource for pre-school children emphasising the development of early literacy skills. Each programme includes familiar songs, rhymes, stories and sound discrimination games to develop children's phonological awareness and confidence with spoken language.

Click on the programme titles below for copies of the songs and rhymes used in each programme.

Autumn 2009
Spring 2010
Summer 2010

Curriculum links
Listen and Play links to the Early Years Foundation Stage of the National Curriculum. In particular the resources focus on the 'communication, language and literacy' skills of children, while supporting their personal, social and creative growth.
Spring 2010

Programmes are broadcast at 0300 on Tuesdays. Programmes will be available as audio on demand for 7 days following the transmission dates below.

Traditional stories

1. The billy goats gruff
12/01/2010
2. The little red hen
19/01/2010
3. The enormous turnip
26/01/2010
4. The magic porridge pot
02/02/2010
5. The elves and the shoemaker
09/02/2010

Stories from around the world

1. Tiddilick
23/02/2010
2. The Rajah's secret
02/03/2010
3. The rabbits and the crocodile
09/03/2010
4. Who's in Hippo's house?
16/03/2010
5. The bear and the bee tree
23/03/2010

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Spring 2010
Traditional stories

1. The billy goats gruff
12/01/2010
2. The little red hen
19/01/2010
3. The enormous turnip
26/01/2010
4. The magic porridge pot
02/02/2010
5. The elves and the shoemaker
09/02/2010

Stories from around the world

1. Tiddilick
23/02/2010
2. The Rajah's secret
02/03/2010
3. The rabbits and the crocodile
09/03/2010
4. Who's in Hippo's house?
16/03/2010
5. The bear and the bee tree
23/03/2010

Additional Resources

DocumentTeacher's Notes - 
Autumn 2009
 (PDF)

DocumentTeacher's Notes -
Spring 2010
(PDF)

DocumentTeacher's Notes -
Summer 2010
(PDF)

DocumentStimulus sounds library
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See also
BBC World Class

BBC World Class
Find out more about school twinning




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