# Language and dance

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## Programme

  Hearing a word and acting it out: language finds a place in movement. Repetition and familiar themes support practice.

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### Acting out words

      Children show with their bodies what a word means.

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### Practising through play

      Dance and games bring words back in different ways.

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### Linking with the class

      In consultation, we use themes or the school's literacy scheme.

  Suitable for groups 1 and 2 (ages 4–6).

## Skills children practise here

- Vocabulary
    
- Listening
    
- Learning through movement