EYFS Visual Literacy: Under the Sea

Develop pupils’ visual literacy skills using images around the theme ‘Under the Sea’. Pupils will retrieve information from the images provided and use inference to answer the question supplied in discussion with an adult.

This resource provides a range of images for pupils to discuss, which could be used within a topic 'Under the Sea' and could also be a prompt for writing captions and simple sentences to encourage emergent writers and as inspiration for art within the classroom.

Included in the EYFS resource pack

• Under the Sea images
• Suggested questions for each image
• Themed writing paper
• Teacher notes with guidance on how the resources could be used in the classroom

Early Learning Goals

Communication and Language

ELG: Listening, Attention and Understanding
Children at the expected level of development will:
- Hold conversation when engaged in back-and-firth exchanges with their teacher and peers.

ELG: Speaking
Children at the expected level of development will:
- participate in small group, class and on-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary

Literacy

ELG: Comprehension
Children at the expected level of development will:
- use and understand recently introduced vocabulary during discussions …

Understanding the World

ELG: The Natural World
Children at the expected level of development will:
- Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants;

Expressive Arts and Design

ELG: Creating with Materials
Children at the expected level of development will:
- Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function; 

This resource is part of the Early Years Inspiration collection.
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• Under the Sea images
• Suggested questions for each image
• Themed writing paper
• Teacher notes with guidance on how the resources could be used in the classroom