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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.

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.

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.

Exclusive: Minister unveils details of £20m early years training fund

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Monday, June 10, 2019

| Nursery World

Children’s minister Nadhim Zahawi has expanded a range of measures to help tackle the language and literacy gap among five-year-olds in the most disadvantaged areas by training practitioners.

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.

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.

Have your say on literacy in the early years

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

| Nursery World

The National Literacy Trust (NLT) is inviting early years practitioners to take part in its 2014 survey on early years literacy.

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.

Book sharing with parents fosters under-threes' communication skills

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Thursday, March 10, 2016

| Nursery World

New research, due at the end of the month, will examine the success of a programme aimed at giving early years practitioners a better understanding of how babies and toddlers’ language and literacy develops.

Teaching unions protest over phonics reading check

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Monday, June 18, 2012

| Nursery World

Teaching unions have joined forces to protest against the phonics screening check, which all six-year-olds will have to take in the next few weeks.

Dolly Parton gives books to 5,000 more London children

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Every child born in Southwark in 2016 will be eligible to receive a free book each month until their fifth birthday, thanks to country singer Dolly Parton.

Time to talk with your chatterboxes

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

| Nursery World

Nurseries, playgroups and primary schools are being invited to register and get involved in the annual Chatterbox Challenge by I CAN, running early in 2011.

Nurseries urged to spend a day on the spoken word

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Thursday, February 26, 2015

| Nursery World

Speech and language charities call for early years settings and schools to dedicate a whole day to spoken language.

Coronavirus: ‘Concerning’ impact on language development and PSED among four-to five-year-olds

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Thursday, April 29, 2021

| Nursery World

Reception class children are struggling with language and communication and personal, social and emotional development, concerned teachers have told researchers looking into the impact of Covid-19 disruption on primary school starters.

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Talking Tents are a winner

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

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

Exclusive: Minister unveils details of £20m early years training fund

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

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

Have your say on literacy in the early years

Young children make more mistakes learning new words than parents expect

Book sharing with parents fosters under-threes' communication skills

Teaching unions protest over phonics reading check

Dolly Parton gives books to 5,000 more London children

Time to talk with your chatterboxes

Nurseries urged to spend a day on the spoken word

More schools get help from reading dogs

Coronavirus: ‘Concerning’ impact on language development and PSED among four-to five-year-olds

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