6/1/2008 10:39:00 AM
Letters; Sunday Telegraph 1 June
Contrary to the assertion by the Children's Minister, Beverley Hughes, that "there are no literacy or numeracy targets" in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) (Letters, May 25), the documentation states that by the end of the EYFS, children should be able to "read a range of familiar and common words and simple sentences independently; show how information can be found in non-fiction texts to answer questions about where, who, why and how; and begin to form simple sentences, sometimes using punctuation".
The minister has taken no account of the gulf between the back-tracking rhetoric that emanates from her department as it continues to lose the argument over EYFS, and what is actually happening in pre-school settings. There, staff are interpreting EYFS just as it has been written - and, no doubt, intended.
(Dr) Richard House, Roehampton University, London SW15
Foundation
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