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At the moment, Father Christmas will be topping children’s list of people to write to, but earlier in the year it was Arsenal Football Club and the Duchess of Cambridge for some, finds Annette Rawstrone

England joint eighth in global reading study

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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

| Nursery World

Northern Ireland and England have been ranked among the top ten countries in the world for reading and literacy.

BookTrust names great books for birth to five-year-olds

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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

| Nursery World

BookTrust has launched a list of recommended books for children aged up to five for the first time as part of Children’s Book Week 2017 this week (13-17 November 2017).

Learning & Development: Literacy - As hard as ABC

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Monday, October 30, 2017

| Nursery World

A defunct alphabet that was used in schools in the 1960s and 70s provides important lessons for current approaches to the literacy teaching of young children, discovers Caroline Vollans

Popular baby book scheme tops 1,000

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

| Nursery World

More than a thousand babies in Bradford are being given a free book every month as part of a literacy skills development programme.

Gap grows between 'rich' and 'poor' in phonics check

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Friday, September 29, 2017

| Nursery World

The latest results of the phonics screening check show the gap has grown between poorer pupils and their better-off peers.

Nurseries wanted for storytime project

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Thursday, September 28, 2017

| Nursery World

A national reading charity is targeting nurseries in a bid to support language development.

Positive Relationships: Working with Parents - REAL progress

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Monday, August 21, 2017

| Nursery World

A home learning early literacy project in Merseyside has improved communication and language development for those children and parents in need of extra support. By Laura Gregory

Foster carers encouraged to inspire love of books

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Friday, July 7, 2017

| Nursery World

Reading together improves relationships between children and their foster carers, new research suggests.

EYFS Best Practice in Schools - No pressure!

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Monday, June 26, 2017

| Nursery World

Rather than obsess over whether activities are free-flow, child-led and so on, teachers should consider if they constitute effective learning and empower the child as a learner, says Jan Dubiel

EYFS Activities - Five things to do with… favourite stories

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Monday, June 26, 2017

| Nursery World

Children’s favourite books can be used to encourage imaginative play outdoors, finds Julie Mountain

EYFS Best Practice in Schools - Tense times

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Monday, June 26, 2017

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The approach to teaching literacy and maths in Reception is a key concern of teachers and EYFS leaders, explains Jan Dubiel, one of the authors of the recently published Hundred Review

Picture book author Lauren Child is new children’s laureate

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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

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The author and illustrator of the award-winning Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean books has been named as the 10th Waterstone’s Children’s Laureate.

Learning & Development: Literacy - On their marks

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Monday, May 29, 2017

| Nursery World

How one nursery school has boosted boys’ writing. By Elizabeth Leer

Scottish Book Trust unveils new Song and Rhyme Library

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Thursday, May 18, 2017

| Nursery World

A new online Song and Rhyme Library has been launched by Bookbug, Scotland’s national book gifting programme, to celebrate Bookbug Week 2017 between 15 and 21 May.

Every Reception child to be given picture book 'The Bumblebear'

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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

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BookTrust, the UK’s largest children’s reading charity, will hand out 700,000 copies of the children’s picture book The Bumblebear to every Reception-aged child in England this Autumn.