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Nursery Equipment: Literacy – Word play

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

| Nursery World

How do children of different ages respond to literature and what is the best way to support them, asks Charlotte Goddard

Early Intervention: Opportunity Areas: Oldham - At home

Features

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

| Nursery World

In Oldham, a literacy programme that has helped families improve their home learning environment should stand them in good stead over lockdown. By Charlotte Goddard

Picturebooks part 5 - Hands on!

Features

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

| Nursery World

Introducing babies and toddlers to books will set them on the way to being confident readers later on. Andy McCormack offers some advice and explores examples of age-appropriate titles

'You don’t always have to read a story, you can make one up'

Opinion

Thursday, March 5, 2020

| Nursery World

To mark World Book Day, here are some tips to share with parents on home-learning from Dr Elizabeth Kilbey, child psychologist, and a presenter of Channel 4’s The Secret Life of 4, 5 and 6-year-olds.

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

Features

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.

Phonics training company to run literacy centre

News

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

News

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.

Creating A Library - Shelf life

Features

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

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

News

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.

Dialogic Reading - Let’s share

Features

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

Deaf charity launches story competition on World Book Day

News

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.