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Pyjamarama returns to make sure no child misses out on their bedtime story

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023

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BookTrust is back with its fun, annual dress-up campaign to encourage children of all ages to read for enjoyment.

Childminders and early years settings offered DfE-funded training to boost language and numeracy

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Thursday, March 30, 2023

| Nursery World

More than 700 early years settings and childminders in England will be able to take part in new training projects funded by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF).

Covid recovery programme found to benefit children's language skills

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Thursday, March 9, 2023

| Nursery World

A Government funded Covid recovery programme to provide additional support for four and five-year-olds with their language skills, has been found to benefit pupils years later.

BookTrust Cymru’s annual Big Welsh Rhyme Time returns with more bilingual rhymes

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

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BookTrust Cymru is encouraging families, schools and early years spaces across Wales to join in with Big Welsh Rhyme Time, a weeklong celebration of sharing bilingual rhymes, poems and songs

Interactive reading found to boost early language development by seven months

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

| Nursery World

Encouraging children to engage with pictures, texts and ask questions during story time can boost their early language development by up to seven months, according to new research.

Call for more focus on children's speech and language in Schools Bill

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

| Nursery World

Campaigners are calling for spoken language to be given importance to reading and writing in the Schools Bill.

Guided play as effective as adult-led instruction for children's learning and development

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Wednesday, January 12, 2022

| Nursery World

A new study finds that learning through guided play can be as effective as adult-led instruction and, in some cases, it can have a greater impact on children’s numeracy.

Find expert guidance on the revised EYFS

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Thursday, September 9, 2021

| Nursery World

Nursery World's invaluable Practice Guide on the Revised EYFS collects together our recent series of articles on each of the Areas of Learning.

Coronavirus: ‘Concerning’ impact on language development and PSED among four-to five-year-olds

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Thursday, April 29, 2021

| Nursery World

Reception class children are struggling with language and communication and personal, social and emotional development, concerned teachers have told researchers looking into the impact of Covid-19 disruption on primary school starters.

Early language learning linked to academic ability in primary school

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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

| Nursery World

Children who spend more time discussing letters and sounds with their parents are better at reading and mathematics when they start school, a new report by Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) reveals.

Autumn phonics check ‘pointless’ in pandemic, most teachers say

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Tuesday, November 24, 2020

| Nursery World

The majority of teachers were against holding this year’s autumn phonics check, with many describing the assessment as ‘pointless’, ‘unnecessary’ and ‘irrelevant’ in the aftermath of lockdown, a survey reveals.

Children's screen time up by two hours a day in lockdown

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Thursday, April 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Young children are spending an extra two hours a day in front of a screen since lockdown began, according to research from children’s reading charity BookTrust.

Parents urged to read to their children

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Thursday, February 6, 2020

| Nursery World

Over a quarter of a million children read at home for less than 15 minutes a week, according to new research.

Cyril and Pat by Emily Gravett wins inaugural book award for under-fives

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Thursday, November 28, 2019

| Nursery World

Cyril and Pat by Emily Gravett has been named as the winner of the BookTrust Storytime Prize.

Free school pupils score higher in phonics check

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Thursday, September 26, 2019

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Children attending free schools and converter academies outperformed those in sponsored academies and local authority-run schools in the phonics check.

Schools start to prepare children for SATs ‘as young as three’, report claims

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

| Nursery World

Some schools start to prepare children for SATs from when they are in nursery, according to research on the impact of testing on primary-age children.

Almost 200 schools drop out of Baseline pilot

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Wednesday, September 18, 2019

| Nursery World

Almost 200 schools that initially signed up to the Reception Baseline pilot have dropped out.

Parents find reading together helps children talk about their worries

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Wednesday, September 18, 2019

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More than 700,000 Reception children will receive a free book this week, as a study finds reading helps children to open up about their feelings.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar named best classic children's book

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Thursday, August 29, 2019

| Nursery World

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle has been named the best children’s classic storybook in the 2019 Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards.

Phonics training company to run literacy centre

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Thursday, June 13, 2019

| Nursery World

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

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Monday, June 10, 2019

| Nursery World

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

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Thursday, May 30, 2019

| Nursery World

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

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

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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

| Nursery World

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

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Friday, April 26, 2019

| Nursery World

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.

Deaf charity launches story competition on World Book Day

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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.

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Pyjamarama returns to make sure no child misses out on their bedtime story

Childminders and early years settings offered DfE-funded training to boost language and numeracy

Covid recovery programme found to benefit children's language skills

BookTrust Cymru’s annual Big Welsh Rhyme Time returns with more bilingual rhymes

Interactive reading found to boost early language development by seven months

Call for more focus on children's speech and language in Schools Bill

Guided play as effective as adult-led instruction for children's learning and development

Find expert guidance on the revised EYFS

Coronavirus: ‘Concerning’ impact on language development and PSED among four-to five-year-olds

Early language learning linked to academic ability in primary school

Autumn phonics check ‘pointless’ in pandemic, most teachers say

Children's screen time up by two hours a day in lockdown

Parents urged to read to their children

Cyril and Pat by Emily Gravett wins inaugural book award for under-fives

Free school pupils score higher in phonics check

Schools start to prepare children for SATs ‘as young as three’, report claims

Almost 200 schools drop out of Baseline pilot

Parents find reading together helps children talk about their worries

The Very Hungry Caterpillar named best classic children's book

Phonics training company to run literacy centre

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

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

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

The Big Picture - Bear necessity

Deaf charity launches story competition on World Book Day

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