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Major new review into children's speech and language

Monday, January 16, 2017

| Nursery World

Ten years on from a landmark report into children’s speech, language and communication, a follow-up review is to be published.

Engaging with babies' simple gestures helps develop language, finds study

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Friday, November 4, 2016

| Nursery World

Researchers have found that responses to babies' first gestures have a direct effect on their language development.

Fathers urged to read more to their children

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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.

Book sharing with parents fosters under-threes' communication skills

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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.

Teaching assistants boost children's speaking abilities

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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

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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.

Hunt blames smartphones for children 'not speaking properly'

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Thursday, August 6, 2015

| Nursery World

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has said that smartphone use among parents is to blame for children’s speech and language delays.

Save the Children highlights early language gap

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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

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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'

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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.

Reading scheme boosts children's language skills

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

| Nursery World

An early years literacy scheme has helped pre-school children that were falling behind to catch up with their peers.

Nurseries urged to spend a day on the spoken word

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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.

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

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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

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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.

Children's use of mime shows how language develops

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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

| Nursery World

Young children instinctively use a ‘language-like’ structure to communicate, according to psychologists.

Have your say on literacy in the early years

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

| Nursery World

The National Literacy Trust (NLT) is inviting early years practitioners to take part in its 2014 survey on early years literacy.

Synthetic phonics 'damages' children's love of reading

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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.

Survey seeks sector's views on children's literacy and language

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Thursday, July 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners are invited to take part in the National Literacy Trusts survey on supporting childrens language.

Malorie Blackman named as Children's Laureate

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

| Nursery World

Malorie Blackman, who has won many awards for writing books for teenagers, is the new Children's Laureate.

Phonics check branded 'a waste of money'

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

| Nursery World

The largest teaching union has slammed the phonics reading check for six-year-olds as a 'waste of money', after Government research found that the majority of teachers found it had 'little or no impact' on children's reading and writing.

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Major new review into children's speech and language

Engaging with babies' simple gestures helps develop language, finds study

Fathers urged to read more to their children

Book sharing with parents fosters under-threes' communication skills

Teaching assistants boost children's speaking abilities

Dolly Parton gives books to 5,000 more London children

Hunt blames smartphones for children 'not speaking properly'

Save the Children highlights early language gap

Training scheme boosts speech skills

Dyslexia 'not caused by poor eyesight'

Reading scheme boosts children's language skills

Nurseries urged to spend a day on the spoken word

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

Programme boosts children's early literacy

Children's use of mime shows how language develops

Have your say on literacy in the early years

Synthetic phonics 'damages' children's love of reading

Survey seeks sector's views on children's literacy and language

Malorie Blackman named as Children's Laureate

Phonics check branded 'a waste of money'

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