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Learning & Development: Communication Part 4 - By the book

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

| Nursery World

Narrative boosts language skills and lays the foundations for reading and writing.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Friedrich Froebel

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

| Nursery World

The principles and practice of one of the most influential thinkers on early childhood are outlined by Froebel scholar and early years writer Tina Bruce.

Learning & Development: Communication, Part 3 - Parent talk

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| Nursery World

A child's communication begins at home, and early years practitioners need to promote it there and in partnership with the nursery, as Helen Moylett explains.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... supporting schemas

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

| Nursery World

Schemas - patterns of repeated behaviour - are key to how young children learn and early years practitioners must respond to them, says Stella Louis.

Learning & Development: Boxes - It's not a box!

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

| Nursery World

When is a box not a box? When it's a bus, a train, a boat or a bed. Michael Jones describes one innovative nursery project using both child-initiated and adult-led activities.

Learning & Development, Communication: Part 2 - Friendly places

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

| Nursery World

The whole learning environment in which young children spend their time needs to offer quality language provision, says Helen Moylett.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Listening to children

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

| Nursery World

The value of seeking children's opinions and some ways practitioners can initiate it in an early years setting are described by Pat Gordon-Smith.

Catch a story to keep creativity alive

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

| Nursery World

A project that invites parents, carers and practitioners to share good practice is helping to inject creativity into early years education.

Learning & Development: Symbolic Thought - See the signs

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

| Nursery World

Observe the great leap in development when young children learn how to use one thing to represent another, with a demonstration of symbolic thought from Pamela May.

Learning & Development: Communication: Part 1 - Time to talk

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

| Nursery World

A new series on communication skills and good early years practice is launched by Helen Moylett.

Learning & Development: ICT - Byte back

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

| Nursery World

We should take the precautionary principle in exposing young children to ICT before we know the long-term effects, argues Dr Richard House.

Learning & Development: Small-world play - It's fantastic!

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

| Nursery World

Play with small, fantasy figurines is an ideal way to address language impoverishment and help to meet the aims of the 'Every Child a Talker' project, says Michael Jones.

Learning & Development: Bilingualism - Talk, talk

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

| Nursery World

An inclusive approach to children learning and speaking more than one language is explored by Tina Bruce, Carolyn Meggitt and Julian Grenier.

Analysis: 'Computers benefit children'

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

| Nursery World

Debates about the effects of computers on young children should address what they are used for and how, says, John Siraj-Blatchford.

Learning & Development: ECAT - Stage struck

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

| Nursery World

A partnership between Every Child A Talker and a community theatre company has helped parents and practitioners get more in tune with children's language development, says Sian McDermott, early years consultant teacher for Enfield Council.

Analysis: Learning & Development - Rethinking play

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

| Nursery World

Adults should not impose their own preconceptions of what is natural or innocent on children's play, argue Sue Grieshaber and Felicity McArdle.

Learning & Development: Play - Party time

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

| Nursery World

The role of play in young children's learning is finding new defenders around the world. Ruth Thomson hears some of the latest thinking.

Learning & Development: Blockplay - Stacking up

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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

| Nursery World

A deeper understanding of children's blockplay and significant improvements in practice in different types of settings were discovered in a unique research project by early years consultants Daniel Spry, Pauline Latchford and Annabel Hollis.

Learning & Development: Play - On cue

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

| Nursery World

Building on children's use of cues, practitioners can work with them to engender greater playfulness in their learning.

Learning & Development: Taking inspiration from Magda Gerber

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

| Nursery World

The influences on today's childcare practice by the work of a pioneering European educator are explained by Mary Evans.

Learning & Development: Language - Sign posting

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

| Nursery World

Can signing help hearing children to develop language quickly? Michael Jones reports on an innovative project in Luton, helping children's oral storytelling by teaching them British Sign Language.

Learning & Development: Leuven Scales - All's well

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

| Nursery World

Practitioners used observation tools developed by academic researchers to assess provision outdoors, as Annie Davy explains.

Learning & Development: Reading - Willing and able?

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

| Nursery World

'The earlier the better' when applied to young children learning to read is an orthodoxy that needs to be challenged, says Dr Sebastian Suggate.

Learning & Development: Intelligence - Smart thinking

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

| Nursery World

Published to critical acclaim, the book New Kinds of Smart argues that intelligence is expandable. Here, co-author Professor Bill Lucas considers the opportunities this new thinking presents for early years education.

Transitions: Part 2 - The learning and developmental needs of five- and six-year-olds

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

| Nursery World

Developmentally appropriate practice is as important for children in Key Stage 1 as it is in the EYFS, as research evidence and teachers' own experience shows.