Early Years
Studio’s Early Years courses are strategically created to expose children to great literature from a young age. Beginning at just three years old, young learners will engage with a variety of material in a number of exciting ways, from group readings of fiction, to dramatic poetry recitals, to emotional song performances, all specifically designed to increase students’ language skills and confidence.
Based around the greatest literature for young children, students on Studio Early Years’ Junior English courses interact with age-appropriate classic and modern texts, poetry, drama and song.
The three Junior English courses are designed to offer the finest available resources and activities to help children read more fluently, understand and respond to what they have read, build their vocabularies, express themselves better, think more clearly and grow into confident language users who are comfortable with using a wide range of linguistic skills.
Junior English students will also encounter an array of nonfiction texts and will learn to investigate and research using the non-fiction library. Emphasis is also put on real world language use such as using signs, maps, menus and magazines to role play and model real life language interactions. Students also have regular access to multimedia texts such as videos, computer word games and interactive story books.
Writing using correct spelling, punctuation and grammar is taught explicitly. Students on the courses grow their writing repertoires by creating original and ‘scaffolded’ work based around the texts and ideas they encounter.
Students enrolled on Junior English courses will have the chance to be prepared for participation in Trinity College London’s Young Performers Certificates.
Explore the three levels of Studio Early Years’ Junior English courses below.
