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EYFS Best Practice: Prime time - Under threes ... Communication and Language

Friday, August 31, 2012

| Nursery World

To create a communication rich environment for their charges, Norland Nursery staff studied their own communication patterns. By Clare Crowther

Eyfs best practice: Prime time ... Communication and Language

Features

Friday, August 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Ability to communicate and use language is recognised as the foundation for children's development across other learning areas. By Nancy Stewart

Teaching unions protest over phonics reading check

News

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.

EYFS: English as an Additional Language - Second best?

Features

Friday, April 27, 2012

| Nursery World

The EAL requirements reveal a lack of knowledge about how language is learned, say early years consultants Tricia Carroll and Anne O'Connor.

Parents believe nursery has more influence on children's reading than they do, survey suggests

News

Friday, March 2, 2012

| Nursery World

Many parents consider early years settings to be more important than the home environment when it comes to children's communication and literacy skills, according to research published by the charity National Literacy Trust (NLT).

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

News

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.

Learning & Development: Childhood - Listen up!

Features

Monday, October 31, 2011

| Nursery World

The feelings of children about their early years learning experiences have been captured in new research by Jacqui Cousins.

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

News

Friday, September 16, 2011

| Nursery World

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

Learning & Development: Communication, language and literacy - Speaking out

Features

Monday, July 11, 2011

| Nursery World

In the national year of communication, research by Nursery World and the National Literacy Trust shows the early years sector to be highly motivated, but in need of more support.

Books at home boost 'school readiness'

News

Thursday, July 7, 2011

| Nursery World

Reading and talking to young children at home helps prepare them for school, according to a new study.

Early years book awards cancelled as money runs out

News

Friday, July 1, 2011

| Nursery World

Booktrust has been forced to put three of its prizes on hold, including its Early Years Awards, due to cuts in Government funding.

Boris Johnson and Peter Andre launch under-fives reading scheme

News

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.

Learning & Development: Communication - Part 5 - Think twice

Features

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

| Nursery World

Let the home language into the nursery for children communicating bilingually, says Helen Moylett

Nursery World and National Literacy Trust launch language development survey

News

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

| Nursery World

How do you support language development? Take part in our survey and you could win free membership of the National Literacy Trust's Early Years Network.

Enthusiastic readers are successful ones

News

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.

Learning & Development: Communication Part 4 - By the book

Features

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

| Nursery World

Narrative boosts language skills and lays the foundations for reading and writing.

A Unique Child: Cognitive development - Multi-lingualism

Features

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

| Nursery World

More children are now growing up multilingual. Kyra Karmiloff and Annette Karmiloff-Smith examine the latest research on how this affects development.

Learning & Development: Communication, Part 3 - Parent talk

Features

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| Nursery World

A child's communication begins at home, and early years practitioners need to promote it there and in partnership with the nursery, as Helen Moylett explains.

Book scheme goes on with reduced funds

News

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.

Learning & Development, Communication: Part 2 - Friendly places

Features

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

| Nursery World

The whole learning environment in which young children spend their time needs to offer quality language provision, says Helen Moylett.

TV and computers wrongly blamed for children's speech problems

News

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.

Phonics urged as remedy for early literacy delay

News

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

| Nursery World

Phonics should be taught by all early years providers and schools and children's progress in developing phonic knowledge and skills should be regularly assessed, according to a new report from Ofsted.

Analysis: Sign up for 'Hello' campaign

News

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.

Learning & Development: Communication: Part 1 - Time to talk

Features

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

| Nursery World

A new series on communication skills and good early years practice is launched by Helen Moylett.

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

News

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.