How the early learning goals for Communication, Language and Literacy should be revised. By Professors Chris Pascal and Tony Bertram, and Kathryn Peckham
How can adult carers give the youngest children the best opportunities to develop early language, asks Opal Dunn
Role play that provides opportunities for talking and thinking helps to develop children’s communication and language, reports Jan Dubiel
Communication is at the basis of good practice, says Mary Evans.
A round-up of courses on offer this winter and spring to help practitioners keep their knowledge and skills up to date Acorn Early Years Training, the specialist early years division of CJ Associates,...
Effective management remains key to tackling the sector's ongoing challenge of recruiting and retaining enthusiastic and capable early years practitioners Acorn Early Years Training * The effective...
Speech and language strategy Time to Talk is improving children’s communication skills in Warwickshire, finds Annette Rawstrone
To create a communication rich environment for their charges, Norland Nursery staff studied their own communication patterns. By Clare Crowther
Principles * Planning an environment that reflects the importance of language through signs, notices and books (p44)
Delyth Mathieson, early years project manager at Edge Hill University, Lancashire, explains how one EYPS short pathway student worked towards evidencing Standard 15: Support the development of...
