


Multisensory Stories in Early Years Settings
Communication and Language
Listening to a range of stories and rhymes builds listening and understanding skills and provides opportunities for individuals to relate experiences to those in their own lives and to make up their own stories.
Personal, Social & Emotional development
The stories present a range of characters and moral dilemmas, teaching children about socially acceptable and unacceptable behaviours and their consequences, in turn, building self-awareness and developing skills to recognise and manage emotions. Sharing stories fosters positive relationships and promotes turn taking and sharing.
Physical Development
The themed extension activities accompanying the stories, promote the development of gross and fine motor skills, co-ordination and control skills.
Mathematics
The stories present opportunities to develop and improve skills in counting, understanding, and using numbers, and describing shape, space and measure.
Literacy
Interest is stimulated through sharing stories, developing, and supporting children’s non-verbal communication, language and early literacy skills. Through repetition children learn new words, recognise narrative enabling them to value language and become confident learners.
Understanding the World
The props that support the stories help individuals to make sense of their environment through observation, investigation, and exploration of a variety of objects and materials. The stories involve people, cultures, festivals and places.
Expressive Arts and Design
The development of imagination and personal creativity through storytelling, role play, arts, crafts, music and dance.