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Deaf charity launches story competition on World Book Day

Thursday, March 7, 2019

| Nursery World

The Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson and Oscar-winning actress Rachel Shenton are using World Book Day to highlight the need to include more disabilities in children’s stories.

EYFS Activities: Sharing books… Baby Day

Features

Monday, January 21, 2019

| Nursery World

Penny Tassoni has ideas for reading Baby Day with the youngest children

EYFS best practice: All about… Storytelling

Features

Monday, January 7, 2019

| Nursery World

Stories are especially important in the early years, explains Mary Medlicott, who offers advice on how to be an effective storyteller to groups of young children

New speech and language project seeks early years expertise

News

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

| Nursery World

A speech and language therapy service is looking for early years settings to be part of a pilot training project involving virtual reality.

EYFS Activities: Sharing books… Archie’s Holiday

Features

Monday, May 28, 2018

| Nursery World

Over the course of this monthly series on sharing books with children, Penny Tassoni will look at a range of fiction and non-fiction titles, from rhyming books for babies to picture books that adults and children can explore together.

The Big Picture - International tales

News

Monday, May 14, 2018

| Nursery World

A new folktale series will introduce young children to stories from around the world.

Interview - Sir Kevan Collins

Other

Monday, May 14, 2018

| Nursery World

Chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation

DfE launches schemes to support early language development

News

Monday, April 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched two schemes to help close the ‘word gap' that exists between disadvantaged children and their peers at the age of five.

Prime and Specific: Make links

Features

Monday, April 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The split between Prime and Specific areas is valid, provided practitioners understand how they inter-relate, says Jan Dubiel

Communication, Language and Literacy: Speaking up

Features

Monday, April 30, 2018

| Nursery World

How the early learning goals for Communication, Language and Literacy should be revised. By Professors Chris Pascal and Tony Bertram, and Kathryn Peckham

Helen Oxenbury and John Burningham win lifetime books award

News

Thursday, February 8, 2018

| Nursery World

The Booktrust has awarded the first-ever double lifetime achievement award to John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury, the couple who are both celebrated for creating some of the most iconic children's picture books.

EYFS Activities: Essential experiences… parties

Features

Monday, January 22, 2018

| Nursery World

Planning a party, to mark an event for example, is a fun activity as well as a learning experience for children, writes Penny Tassoni

Scottish Book Trust unveils new Song and Rhyme Library

News

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.

Learning & Development: Literacy - In focus

Features

Monday, April 3, 2017

| Nursery World

How a ‘Focus Stories’ approach and skilful adult ‘scaffolding’, rather than instruction, can boost young children’s engagement with books. By Lucy Rodriguez Leon and Tamsin Harvey

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.

EYFS Activities: Essential experiences… cooking

Features

Monday, January 23, 2017

| Nursery World

There are many developmental benefits of cooking. Penny Tassoni provides some tips for settings

Enabling Environments: Literacy - Go live!

Features

Monday, January 9, 2017

| Nursery World

Discover Children’s Story Centre is immersing visitors in stories. Annette Rawstrone reports

Learning & Development: Literacy - Just imagine

Features

Monday, October 17, 2016

| Nursery World

How Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, now more than 20 years old, is still encouraging children and families to read. By Annette Rawstrone

EYFS Activities: Communication and language… Story of the week

Features

Monday, July 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Frequent repetition of stories can help to develop a child’s vocabulary, explains Rebecca Wilson

The Dolly Parton UK Imagination Library Conference

Other

Friday, May 13, 2016

| Nursery World

The Dolly Parton UK Imagination Library will be holding its UK conference on 9th June at the Nottingham Conference Centre, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU

Book sharing with parents fosters under-threes' communication skills

News

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.

My Best Course - Using Reggio to find meaning

Features

Monday, February 22, 2016

| Nursery World

One Reggio course on language and literacy helped Louise Lowings to get more from her child development training. By Hannah Crown

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.