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Sorting items by different properties and comparing them is a skill that you can observe the children learning to use with increasing sophistication, as Sheila Ebbutt and Carole Skinner demonstrate.
Children speaking different languages, or very little at all, learn to communicate happily at a nursery visited by Annette Rawstrone.
Young children need to learn about healthy foods while they enjoy eating them. Jean Evans hears how one setting does it.
In the last of our National Strategies features on the Early Years Foundation Stage, regional adviser Jane Mansfield and senior adviser Jan Lepley reflect on young children's development of empathy.
In seeking to ensure children are always busy, have we overlooked the value of simply doing nothing? Dr Natasha Kirkham considers the issue.
The inclusion of physical development as a Prime area of the revised EYFS will have a powerful impact on a child's emotional well-being and later learning, says Anne O'Connor.
To mark the publication of new guidance document Musical Development Matters, its author Nicola Burke explains its content and what she hopes it will achieve
Movement play is vital to young children's cognitive development as well as physical skills, says Anne O'Connor
Understanding how young children think is crucial to good practice. In the first of a new series, early years consultant Marion Dowling explores why.
The importance of crawling to physical and mental development, and how to encourage it, is explained by Anne O'Connor and Anna Daly.