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Book sharing with parents fosters under-threes' communication skills

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.

The HELLO (Helping Early Language and Literacy Outcomes) programme, which is run by the National Literacy Trust, aims to improve the communication of children from birth to three, and support parents with developing this at home.

The programme has been funded for a year, but the aim is for settings to continue sharing practice with each other after this ends.

HELLO is being run by five nursery schools and two local authorities - Middlesborough Council and Reading Borough Council – who have linked up with with more than 70 early years settings in their local area to share ideas and practice.

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