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Learning & Development: Storytelling - Inside stories
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- 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
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- 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'
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- 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.
Reading scheme boosts children's language skills
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- Thursday, March 26, 2015 | Nursery World
An early years literacy scheme has helped pre-school children that were falling behind to catch up with their peers.
Nurseries urged to spend a day on the spoken word
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- 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.
Touch-screen devices could close the gap in children's literacy
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- Monday, December 1, 2014 | Nursery World
Touch-screen technology could be used to to combat low literacy in boys and disadvantaged children, suggests a new report.
Figures show wider gap in attainment for five-year-olds with SEN
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- 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.
Story tour in prisons wins praise
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- Tuesday, August 5, 2014 | Nursery World
A project encouraging male prisoners to read with their children has been applauded by Ofsted for its contribution to family learning.
Early years settings sign up for Fathers' Story Week
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- Tuesday, June 3, 2014 | Nursery World
Schools, nurseries and family settings across England will invite fathers to join them to read stories next week in the run-up to Father’s Day on 15 June.
Hairy tales
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- Monday, June 2, 2014 | Nursery World
All four- and five-year-olds in England and Wales will receive free
books this September as part of the initiative Booktime.
Early years children raise thousands in charity singalong
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- Thursday, May 22, 2014 | Nursery World
Annual fundraising event Chatterbox Challenge has raised more than £145,000 for children’s communication charity I CAN.
Have your say on literacy in the early years
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- Wednesday, April 9, 2014 | Nursery World
The National Literacy Trust (NLT) is inviting early years practitioners to take part in its 2014 survey on early years literacy.
Tablet computers 'boost children's reading skills'
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- Tuesday, March 11, 2014 | Nursery World
Reading on tablet computers and smartphones offers a way into reading for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, according to new research.
EYFS Best Practice: All about ... children's storymaking
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- Monday, February 10, 2014 | Nursery World
By allowing children to take a leading role in the telling of
stories, we can support them to think logically and make sense of the
world. Nancy Stewart explains.
Learning & Development: CL&L - Joined-up thinking
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Features
- 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.
Malorie Blackman named as Children's Laureate
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- Wednesday, June 5, 2013 | Nursery World
Malorie Blackman, who has won many awards for writing books for teenagers, is the new Children's Laureate.
Positive Relationships: Working with Parents - Book talk
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- Friday, May 17, 2013 | Nursery World
Enrich a child's language skills by talking about books, say Claire Bates and Helen Roscoe, Suffolk County Council Early Years and Childcare Service
The Big Picture - Worlds of the imagination
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- Friday, February 8, 2013 | Nursery World
The National Gallery is holding the Imaginary Worlds Family Festival during half term.
Booktrust campaign to raise 2m to get 12,000 disadvantaged children reading
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- Thursday, January 17, 2013 | Nursery World
The charity Booktrust has launched a new fundraising drive to help the UK's most vulnerable children through the power of stories and reading.
A Unique Child: Inclusion - Shine on
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Features
- Friday, January 11, 2013 | Nursery World
A Bedford-based nursery's strategy for developing children's communication skills has won it a major award.
The Big Picture: Early language skills in action
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- Friday, December 7, 2012 | Nursery World
The minister for children and families, Edward Timpson MP, visited Stonegrove Children's Centre in Edgware, Barnet to celebrate the progress made by children and their families through the Early Language Development Programme (ELDP).
Learning & Development EAL: Dual purpose
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Features
- Friday, October 12, 2012 | Nursery World
A training project to help early years practitioners assess the development of children with English as an additional language has proved highly effective. Julie Cigman explains
A Parent's Guide to ... Literacy
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- Friday, September 28, 2012 | Nursery World
As a parent, literacy is probably the area that you are most determined for your child to succeed in. It is important, both in school and in life, and being able to read and write confidently and fluently are vital skills that we all need.
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