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Helen Oxenbury and John Burningham win lifetime books award

Thursday, February 8, 2018

| Nursery World

The Booktrust has awarded the first-ever double lifetime achievement award to John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury, the couple who are both celebrated for creating some of the most iconic children's picture books.

EYFS Activities: Essential experiences… parties

Features

Monday, January 22, 2018

| Nursery World

Planning a party, to mark an event for example, is a fun activity as well as a learning experience for children, writes Penny Tassoni

Learning & Development: Literacy - In focus

Features

Monday, April 3, 2017

| Nursery World

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

Daddy Pig promotes family reading for BookTrust

News

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

| Nursery World

Peppa Pig’s Daddy Pig has been unveiled as Ambassador for BookTrust, the UK’s largest reading charity.

EYFS Activities: Essential experiences… cooking

Features

Monday, January 23, 2017

| Nursery World

There are many developmental benefits of cooking. Penny Tassoni provides some tips for settings

Enabling Environments: Literacy - Go live!

Features

Monday, January 9, 2017

| Nursery World

Discover Children’s Story Centre is immersing visitors in stories. Annette Rawstrone reports

Learning & Development: Literacy - Just imagine

Features

Monday, October 17, 2016

| Nursery World

How Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, now more than 20 years old, is still encouraging children and families to read. By Annette Rawstrone

EYFS Activities: Communication and language… Story of the week

Features

Monday, July 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Frequent repetition of stories can help to develop a child’s vocabulary, explains Rebecca Wilson

My Best Course - Using Reggio to find meaning

Features

Monday, February 22, 2016

| Nursery World

One Reggio course on language and literacy helped Louise Lowings to get more from her child development training. By Hannah Crown

Dolly Parton gives books to 5,000 more London children

News

Thursday, February 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Every child born in Southwark in 2016 will be eligible to receive a free book each month until their fifth birthday, thanks to country singer Dolly Parton.

Learning & Development: Storytelling - Inside stories

Features

Monday, July 13, 2015

| Nursery World

Story Square harnesses the power of storytelling to give children a voice through play - and enable others to learn about them. Class teacher Jay Ramsey shares his setting's experience

Save the Children highlights early language gap

News

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

| Nursery World

The charity is calling for more investment in the early years to prevent children, particularly those that are disadvantaged, falling behind in language development.

Dyslexia 'not caused by poor eyesight'

News

Friday, June 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Experts have cast doubt on the popular belief that dyslexia is a visual disorder, as a new large-scale study suggests dyslexia is not linked to eyesight problems.

Nurseries urged to spend a day on the spoken word

News

Thursday, February 26, 2015

| Nursery World

Speech and language charities call for early years settings and schools to dedicate a whole day to spoken language.

Figures show wider gap in attainment for five-year-olds with SEN

News

Thursday, November 20, 2014

| Nursery World

A more detailed breakdown of the EYFS Profile statistics, published today, shows that the gap has widened between children with special educational needs and their peers.

MPs back charity's literacy vision

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Friday, October 31, 2014

| Nursery World

The National Literacy Forum has secured cross-party commitment for its campaign for a more literate nation.

Learning & Development: CL&L - Joined-up thinking

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Friday, October 4, 2013

| Nursery World

Making authentic links between reading and talking has been helping early years practitioners and teachers to develop children's communication, language and literacy. Di Chilvers explains.