LET'S SHOW UNWILLING
Just had to congratulate Nursery World on printing the excellent 'Willing and able' (8 July) which challenged 'the earlier the better' calls for young children to learn to read. What a superb article.
As an EYP and qualified teacher working in early years, I totally agree with Dr Sebastion Suggate's assertion that ableness is not readiness, and on the dangers of shifting to a narrow focus of reading skills such as learning the alphabet. We ignore our focus on the wider language skills development of children at our and ultimately their peril.
The Government's dropping of the recommendations for a new curriculum suggested by the Rose Review should fire a warning shot for all early years practitioners. We need to make sure our knowledgeable voices are listened to, now more than ever. We must prevent what Professor Rainer Dollase so aptly described as 'a case of ignorance and research amnesia' from being allowed to occur in the review of early years provision.
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