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Early language as important as obesity as a sign of child wellbeing

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

| Nursery World

Early language development must be prioritised as a child wellbeing indicator to close the gap between children in low-income and better-off households, according to a new study.

Daddy Pig promotes family reading for BookTrust

News

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

| Nursery World

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

Learning & Development: Communication & Language - Champion

Features

Monday, November 28, 2016

| Nursery World

Speech and language strategy Time to Talk is improving children’s communication skills in Warwickshire, finds Annette Rawstrone

Fathers urged to read more to their children

News

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.

Teaching assistants boost children's speaking abilities

News

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.

Dolly Parton gives books to 5,000 more London children

News

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.

Early Years in School: Two-Year-Olds - The 3Rs

Features

Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

With more two-year-olds heading for a school-based setting, Julia Manning-Morton offers some starting points for effectively meeting this age group’s needs

Learning & Development: Communication & Language - On Platform 3

Features

Monday, November 30, 2015

| Nursery World

A pilot online training programme building nursery practitioner confidence with children’s language needs is being extended to childminders. Sue Owen looks at what it offers

Learning & Development: Communication & Language - My Mistake

Features

Monday, November 16, 2015

| Nursery World

When learning a language, children often say things that don’t sound quite right. In the last article in this series, Professor Julian Pine explains why ‘clever mistakes’ are often a sign of progress

Learning & Development: Communication & Language - Confused?

Features

Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

What is it like growing up with two languages, and how does it affect development? Ludovica Serratrice and Samantha Durrant address some common misunderstandings and provide the facts.

Save the Children highlights early language gap

News

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

| Nursery World

The charity is calling for more investment in the early years to prevent children, particularly those that are disadvantaged, falling behind in language development.

Training scheme boosts speech skills

News

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.

Dyslexia 'not caused by poor eyesight'

News

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.

Nurseries urged to spend a day on the spoken word

News

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.

Home learning - A parent's guide to ... bilingualism

Features

Monday, February 23, 2015

| Nursery World

More children now grow up with two or more languages, but how can you help them learn? Penny Tassoni offers some advice.

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

News

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.

Programme boosts children's early literacy

News

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.

Synthetic phonics 'damages' children's love of reading

News

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.

Learning & Development: CL&L - Joined-up thinking

Features

Friday, October 4, 2013

| Nursery World

Making authentic links between reading and talking has been helping early years practitioners and teachers to develop children's communication, language and literacy. Di Chilvers explains.

Learning & Development: Two-year-olds: Part 9 - Sounds good

Features

Friday, September 6, 2013

| Nursery World

Language opens doors in terms of development and helps children work out the world around them. Penny Tassoni looks at how settings can best support two-year-olds to grow their skills

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