Phonics training company to run literacy centre

13 June 2019 | by Catherine Gaunt

The Department for Education has come under fire for awarding the contract to run a centre that will train Reception teachers to teach children to read to a leading commercial phonics provider.

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

10 June 2019 | by Catherine Gaunt

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.

JM Barrie's childhood home to open as Scotland's new storytelling centre

30 May 2019 | by Meredith Jones Russell

A new children’s literature hub will open in the house and garden that inspired the Peter Pan author as a child.

EYFS activities: Sharing books… The Perfect Sofa

27 May 2019 | by Penny Tassoni

By Fifi Kuo (Boxer Books, 2019)

Creating A Library - Shelf life

12 May 2019 | by Amina Khan

How – and why – one setting created a library for two-year-olds and their parents. By Amina Khan, early childhood educator at Everton Nursery School and Family Centre in Liverpool

Language unlocks reading

30 April 2019 | by Andrea Quincey, head of primary English at Oxford University Press

Andrea Quincey is head of primary English at Oxford University Press, which has today published a policy report, Language unlocks reading, with the National Literacy Trust and the APPG on Literacy. This highlights the crucial link between children’s early language skills and life chances.

NLT launches 'chat, play, read' tips for parents of under-fives

30 April 2019 | by Meredith Jones Russell

A new project from the National Literacy Trust aims to help parents boost their child’s language skills at home.

The Big Picture - Bear necessity

28 April 2019 | by Meredith Jones Russell

Walker Books is giving away 10,000 copies of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic story.

Dialogic Reading - Let’s share

14 April 2019 | by June O'Sullivan

Dialogic reading, where the child is prompted to be the teller of the story, has been a success at LEYF, explains June O’Sullivan

EYFS Activities: Sharing books… You Can’t take an Elephant on the Bus

14 April 2019 | by Penny Tassoni

by Patricia Cleveland-Peck (Bloomsbury, 2015)