Search

Search Results

Found 468 results for .

Sharing Rhymes: ‘Molly, my sister, and I’

Features

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

| Nursery World

Sharing Rhymes – Molly, my sister, and I

'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.

NW Equipment & Resources Awards 2019: Prime Areas

Other

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

| Nursery World

Two gold, two silver and one bronze medals were awarded.

Communication & Language: On reflection

Features

Monday, September 30, 2019

| Nursery World

How settings can improve how they support the Communication and Language (C&L) skills of children as seen through the lens of the new Ofsted judgement ‘Quality of education’. By Julie Kent, Caroline Farley and Sue Hobson

Speech - In the clear

Features

Monday, August 19, 2019

| Nursery World

What are the effects of dummy use on young children’s speech and language development? Radhika Kovendrakumar gives advice, based on research she did for her pre-school

Nursery rhymes may help to develop children's maths skills

News

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

| Nursery World

Singing songs and rhymes with children may help early numeracy more than counting, a new study suggests.

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

Speech & Language: Part 12 - Just ask?

Features

Monday, April 1, 2019

| Nursery World

Anne-Marie Tassoni and Penny Tassoni explain the purpose of asking questions of children, and what they should entail

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.

Charities unite to call for action on children's SLCN

News

Thursday, March 7, 2019

| Nursery World

Sixty charities and organisations have joined forces to urge the Prime Minister to do more to improve support for the 1.4 million children with speech, language and communication needs.

Speech & Language: Part 11 - Let me explain

Features

Monday, March 4, 2019

| Nursery World

What type of expressive language should you expect three- to five-year-olds to be able to use when re-telling a story or event? Anne-Marie Tassoni and Penny Tassoni advise

Health visitors to be trained to close the word gap

News

Thursday, February 28, 2019

| Nursery World

A thousand health visitors in the most deprived parts of England will be given specialist training to help close the language gap between disadvantaged children and their peers.

DfE to pay for free learning apps for disadvantaged children

News

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

| Nursery World

Families from disadvantaged backgrounds will get free access to apps as part of a new Government initiative.

Interview - Cerys Griffiths

Other

Monday, February 18, 2019

| Nursery World

The BBC’s new early years language and literacy initiative aims to halve the pre-school language gap. Cerys Griffiths, who leads the project, tells the story so far

Speech & Language: Part 10 - Full attention

Features

Monday, February 4, 2019

| Nursery World

Anne-Marie Tassoni and Penny Tassoni explain ways to help children aged three to five who struggle to follow instructions or sit quietly during group times

Shops and businesses to help children develop language skills

News

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

| Nursery World

Clarks has pledged to train all 6,500 of its staff in developing children’s speech, language and communication skills and engaging with families in stores across the country.

EYFS best practice in schools: Role play - Home and away

Features

Monday, January 21, 2019

| Nursery World

Even the youngest children role play, but the activity takes on whole new meanings and imaginative potential with Reception pupils, explains Charlotte Goddard

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