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Funding for school book clubs to foster love of reading

Friday, March 6, 2015

| Nursery World

Ministers want schools to set up book clubs and arrange library membership for all seven- and eight-year-olds to help boost children’s reading skills.

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.

Reading charity gives away books at food banks this Christmas

News

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

| Nursery World

Free books for children and adults are to be handed out at food banks during the festive period, thanks to a partnership between Booktrust and The Trussell Trust food bank network.

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

News

Friday, October 31, 2014

| Nursery World

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

MP named as patron of books' scheme for children in care

News

Friday, October 24, 2014

| Nursery World

Alan Johnson MP is the new patron for children’s book reading club Letterbox.

Big picture: Bench marks

News

Monday, October 20, 2014

| Nursery World

Fifty unique 'BookBenches' designed by well-known artists and illustrators and inspired by books, including children's classics Peter Pan, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Lauren Child's Clarice Bean stories, have raised more than £250,000 at auction for the National Literacy Trust.

Learning & Development: Physical Development - All fine by us!

Features

Monday, October 6, 2014

| Nursery World

Can daily sessions of focused physical activities help children develop the gross and fine motor skills they need to become confident writers? Helen Chilton reports on her school's progress.

Positive Relationships: Home learning - Get to grips

Features

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

While certain activities are useful for the development of handwriting, others can hinder it - and practitioners can help by explaining the differences to parents.

England football star in bid to get more children reading

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Friday, June 13, 2014

| Nursery World

At the start of the World Cup, England midfielder Frank Lampard has teamed up with the National Literacy Trust to encourage children to take ‘reading selfies’.

Rise in number of poor children 'behind in reading' at seven

News

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Disadvantaged children who are behind in the 'three Rs' at the age of seven already have their life chances determined, according to Save the Children.

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

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.

The Big Picture - Time to get wiggling

News

Friday, September 20, 2013

| Nursery World

Pebbles Children's Centre in Basingstoke hosted the launch of the Giant Wiggle, a sponsored conga campaign in aid of Action for Children based on best-selling children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Positive Relationships: Working with parents - Let's meet

Features

Friday, July 26, 2013

| Nursery World

A project from Bookstart is offering children's centre staff a way to work more closely with disadvantaged families. Ruth Thomson explains.

Learning & Development: Writing - To the letter

Features

Friday, July 12, 2013

| Nursery World

Literacy is linked to a specific body of knowledge and skills, so practitioners should focus on helping children to acquire these essentials, says Vicky Hutchin.

Malorie Blackman named as Children's Laureate

News

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

Features

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

News

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

News

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

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

News

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

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

Features

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.

Nearly half of all six-year-olds fail phonics reading check

News

Thursday, September 27, 2012

| Nursery World

Just under six out of ten six-year-olds met the standard required by the new phonics reading check, the results of the first year of the test show.

EYFS Best practice: Be Specific ... Literacy

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Friday, September 14, 2012

| Nursery World

Controversy over when reading and writing should be taught could persist under the revised framework.Jan Dubiel, national development manager for Early Excellence, reviews the essential principles.

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