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Talking Tents are a winner

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

| Nursery World

Encouraging a love of language, stories and reading among pre-school children and their families has won a Norwich nursery a National Literacy Trust award.

Teaching assistants boost children's speaking abilities

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Friday, February 26, 2016

| Nursery World

Teaching assistants working with small groups of young children struggling to talk have successfully improved their language skills by several months.

Boris Johnson and Peter Andre launch under-fives reading scheme

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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

| Nursery World

The London Mayor and singer Peter Andre have launched a new literacy project to support three-to-five-year-olds in the capital.

Analysis: Sign up for 'Hello' campaign

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

| Nursery World

There's plenty that you can do to be support this vital drive, says Communication Champion Jean Gross, who spoke to Melanie Defries.

Daddy Pig promotes family reading for BookTrust

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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

| Nursery World

Peppa Pig’s Daddy Pig has been unveiled as Ambassador for BookTrust, the UK’s largest reading charity.

Gove makes partial U-turn over plan to axe Booktrust funding

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

| Nursery World

Education secretary Michael Gove has partly reversed the Government's decision to axe the 13m grant for programmes which provide free books for babies and children, after the move was slammed by writers including the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and children's author Philip Pullman.

New resource for practitioners to encourage parents to read with their children

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

| Nursery World

The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education has launched a new campaign to help practitioners and parents instil a love of reading and books in children before they start school.

TV and computers wrongly blamed for children's speech problems

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

| Nursery World

One in six parents wrongly blame watching too much TV and technology as the most common cause of speech and language difficulties in young children, a new survey suggests.

Enthusiastic readers are successful ones

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

| Nursery World

Enthusiastic young readers are five times more likely to achieve above-average results in reading tests, suggests new research.

Malorie Blackman named as Children's Laureate

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

| Nursery World

Malorie Blackman, who has won many awards for writing books for teenagers, is the new Children's Laureate.

Training scheme boosts speech skills

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Monday, June 29, 2015

| Nursery World

A national early language training programme has been successful in boosting the communication skills of two to three-year-olds.

Figures show wider gap in attainment for five-year-olds with SEN

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

| Nursery World

A more detailed breakdown of the EYFS Profile statistics, published today, shows that the gap has widened between children with special educational needs and their peers.

Phonics check branded 'a waste of money'

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

| Nursery World

The largest teaching union has slammed the phonics reading check for six-year-olds as a 'waste of money', after Government research found that the majority of teachers found it had 'little or no impact' on children's reading and writing.

Tell the National Literacy Trust about literacy and language development in your setting for a chance to win 150 of M & S vouchers!

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

| Nursery World

The National Literacy Trust is inviting early years and nursery professionals working to support literacy to complete a ten-minute online survey.

Dyslexia 'not caused by poor eyesight'

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Friday, June 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Experts have cast doubt on the popular belief that dyslexia is a visual disorder, as a new large-scale study suggests dyslexia is not linked to eyesight problems.

Scotland's literacy action plan launched

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

| Nursery World

The first action plan to improve literacy from early years through to adulthood has been developed by the Scottish government.

Book scheme goes on with reduced funds

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has reaffirmed its commitment to providing free books for babies and children and announced a new scheme to be targeted through children's centres.

Shops and businesses to help children develop language skills

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

| Nursery World

Clarks has pledged to train all 6,500 of its staff in developing children’s speech, language and communication skills and engaging with families in stores across the country.

Reading test for all six-year-olds given go-ahead

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Friday, September 16, 2011

| Nursery World

The DfE has confirmed that all six-year-olds will take a phonics reading test next June.

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders report widening attainment gap among disadvantaged under-fives

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Friday, May 14, 2021

| Nursery World

Nearly half of early years providers believe the gap between disadvantaged under-fives and their peers has grown during the pandemic, a survey suggests, with the majority finding that fewer children across all backgrounds are reaching expected pre-Covid levels of attainment.

Synthetic phonics 'damages' children's love of reading

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

| Nursery World

The education secretary’s insistence that children should be taught to read using synthetic phonics is almost ‘a form of abuse’, a leading academic claims.

Young children make more mistakes learning new words than parents expect

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

| Nursery World

Learning new words is not always as easy for young children as parents may think, according to the results of a new study.

Fathers urged to read more to their children

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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

| Nursery World

Fathers are being encouraged to spend more time reading to their children, after a survey found that mothers believe they have more influence in helping their children learn to read than fathers.

Programme boosts children's early literacy

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

| Nursery World

An evaluation of the first year of the Making it REAL programme, published today, has found it has been successful in considerably improving children’s early literacy development.

Charities unite to call for action on children's SLCN

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Thursday, March 7, 2019

| Nursery World

Sixty charities and organisations have joined forces to urge the Prime Minister to do more to improve support for the 1.4 million children with speech, language and communication needs.

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Talking Tents are a winner

Teaching assistants boost children's speaking abilities

Boris Johnson and Peter Andre launch under-fives reading scheme

Analysis: Sign up for 'Hello' campaign

Daddy Pig promotes family reading for BookTrust

Gove makes partial U-turn over plan to axe Booktrust funding

New resource for practitioners to encourage parents to read with their children

TV and computers wrongly blamed for children's speech problems

Enthusiastic readers are successful ones

Malorie Blackman named as Children's Laureate

Training scheme boosts speech skills

Figures show wider gap in attainment for five-year-olds with SEN

Phonics check branded 'a waste of money'

Tell the National Literacy Trust about literacy and language development in your setting for a chance to win 150 of M & S vouchers!

Dyslexia 'not caused by poor eyesight'

Scotland's literacy action plan launched

Book scheme goes on with reduced funds

Shops and businesses to help children develop language skills

Reading test for all six-year-olds given go-ahead

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders report widening attainment gap among disadvantaged under-fives

Synthetic phonics 'damages' children's love of reading

Young children make more mistakes learning new words than parents expect

Fathers urged to read more to their children

Programme boosts children's early literacy

Charities unite to call for action on children's SLCN

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