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Silence of the little lambs: talking skills in decline

Children are starting school unable even to recite a rhyme

Rebecca Smithers, education correspondent
Tuesday March 4, 2003
The Guardian

It's official - poor Humpty has been dumped though no fault of his own.

The speaking and listening skills of children starting school have deteriorated

 to the extent that few now enter the classroom able to recite or sing the

simplest nursery rhymes or songs, according to a majority of teachers

questioned in a new survey.


In the study by the government's basic skills agency, teachers claim that half

of all children now start school at four or five unable to speak audibly and

be understood by others, respond to simple instructions, recognise their own

names or even count to five.


Learning nursery rhymes on a parent or carer's lap has traditionally been seen

as an important first step towards the grasp of literacy and numeracy skills,

and key to phonological development. But today's parents are blamed for failing

to recognise the importance of helping to develop their children's

communication skills, while the demands and pressures of modern life mean there

are many readily avail able "talking machines" such as the computer and

television that compete with talking and listening.


Middle class as well as working class parents are criticised in the survey,

accused of "buying" themselves out of having to give time to their children by

giving them expensive presents such as computer games that do not need an

adult's involvement. Even when the youngsters start school, parents are happy

to leave everything to the teacher.


The agency's survey, Young Children's Skills on Entry to Education, questioned

more than 700 headteachers and teachers about their perceptions of children's

skills on entry to school. It found that many believed children were now less

able to perform a range of key activities which trigger the development of

literacy and numeracy skills. These activities include talking voluntarily to

others, talking about personal experiences, recognising their names and

counting to five.

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