In the nursery, we are using a ‘Three Read’ approach to help children develop really important literacy skills, like understanding how books work, understanding stories, listening, thinking and talking about their ideas and experiences. Small groups of children will work with the same book three times over a week.

The emphasis on the first read is hearing the whole story and beginning to understand what happened and why.  With the second read, the emphasis is on understanding the story and building longer conversations with the children to help them think more deeply about events and reasons.  By the third read, the children will be the storytellers, talking about what happened on each page, how characters feel and what they might say or be thinking.

With frequent experience of the ‘Three Read’ approach, children should develop their talking, thinking and listening skills.