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EYFS Activities: An A to Z of enhancements - B is for books

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

| Nursery World

Amy Jackson continues her tour of the alphabet of enhancements to continuous provision, looking at inventive ways to use books to deepen learning

EYFS Activities: Sharing books… Hairy Maclary’s Rumpus at the Vet

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Monday, February 17, 2020

| Nursery World

Hairy Maclary is the star of a series of rhyming books about a shaggy Scottish terrier. In this book, he is at the vet’s surgery, where the busy waiting room is full of different animals – dogs, kittens, mice and a cockatoo called Cassie.

Picturebooks, Part 1 - Not a word!

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Monday, January 6, 2020

| Nursery World

Can ‘silent’ picturebooks speak a thousand words, asks Andy McCormack

Children’s Laureate - It’s magic

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Friday, July 19, 2019

| Nursery World

New children’s laureate Cressida Cowell has unveiled her ‘to-do list’ while in the role. Meredith Jones Russell reports

EYFS Activities: Sharing books… Dear Zoo

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Monday, June 24, 2019

| Nursery World

by Rod Campbell (Macmillan edition 2019)

EYFS activities: Sharing books… The Perfect Sofa

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Monday, May 27, 2019

| Nursery World

By Fifi Kuo (Boxer Books, 2019)

Creating A Library - Shelf life

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Monday, May 13, 2019

| Nursery World

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

Dialogic Reading - Let’s share

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Monday, April 15, 2019

| Nursery World

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… Hat Tricks

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Monday, March 18, 2019

| Nursery World

Penny Tassoni has ideas for sharing a book full of surprises.

EYFS best practice: All about… Storytelling

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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

EYFS best practice - All about… handwriting

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Monday, October 1, 2018

| Nursery World

What are the expectations of young children’s ability to write by hand and how is this changing in the context of an increasingly digital world, asks Annette Rawstrone

EYFS Activities: Sharing books… Puffin Peter

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Monday, July 23, 2018

| Nursery World

by Petr Horacek (Walker Books, 2011)

Reading to Children - The magic of books

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Monday, May 28, 2018

| Nursery World

With fewer parents reading to their children, Penny Tassoni explains how practitioners can best share books

Prime and Specific: Make links

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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

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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

Learning & Development: Books - Double act

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Monday, February 19, 2018

| Nursery World

We profile Book Trust Lifetime Achievement Award winners John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury, with tributes from judges and peers

EYFS Best Practice: All about… literacy

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Monday, February 5, 2018

| Nursery World

Effective literacy teaching involves much more than synthetic phonics, explains Annette Rawstrone

Learning & Development: Music: Part 5 - Take note

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Monday, January 22, 2018

| Nursery World

Music plays an important role in helping children to read, write and enjoy literature, says Linda Pound

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

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 Best Practice in Schools - Tense times

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Monday, June 26, 2017

| Nursery World

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

Learning & Development: Literacy - On their marks

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Monday, May 29, 2017

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

Learning & Development: Literacy - In focus

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Monday, April 3, 2017

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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