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EYFS Activities: Sharing books… The Cow Who Climbed A Tree

Monday, November 11, 2019

| Nursery World

Tina is a cow that lives with her three sisters, and while she is curious and adventurous, her sisters are more conventional. They enjoy eating grass in the meadow, while Tina dreams of flying to the moon.

EYFS Activities: Sharing books… Mouse House

Features

Monday, August 20, 2018

| Nursery World

by John Burningham (Jonathan Cape, 2017)

EYFS Activities: Sharing books… Archie’s Holiday

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Monday, May 28, 2018

| Nursery World

Over the course of this monthly series on sharing books with children, Penny Tassoni will look at a range of fiction and non-fiction titles, from rhyming books for babies to picture books that adults and children can explore together.

Unique Child Health: Spiral of learning

Features

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

| Nursery World

The build-up of knowledge through successive experiences can be well used for healthy living, say Alison Tonkin, Cath Alderson and Gill Roberts.

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.

DfE launches schemes to support early language development

News

Monday, April 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched two schemes to help close the ‘word gap' that exists between disadvantaged children and their peers at the age of five.

Picturebooks 8 – Sum it up!

Features

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

| Nursery World

How do picturebooks support early mathematics, and what are some of the best books to choose? Andy McCormack reports

Around the Nursery, Part 5 - Cover to cover

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Monday, January 20, 2020

| Nursery World

How should settings provide books and storytimes for children across the age groups, and what is the role of the adult? Penny Tassoni explains

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.

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.

Interactive reading found to boost early language development by seven months

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

| Nursery World

Encouraging children to engage with pictures, texts and ask questions during story time can boost their early language development by up to seven months, according to new research.

EYE SUPPLEMENT Research – Talking Together

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Thursday, June 27, 2024

| Nursery World

Sean Delaney and Kirsty MacDonald discuss research evaluating the First Words Together programme, which aims to address the language gap in areas of high deprivation

Children's books – new for Spring

Features

Friday, February 11, 2022

| Nursery World

Karen Hart road tests some new titles with a variety of different aged children and discovers how there is magic in their pages.

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.

Libraries offer free sticker book for under-fives

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Thursday, January 14, 2016

| Nursery World

Pre-school children can get a free sticker book on trips to their local library to make visits more exciting and inspiring, as part of a pilot project by Book Trust.

Positive Relationships: A parent's guide to ... Reading

Features

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

| Nursery World

Everyone knows that learning to read is an essential skill, says Penny Tassoni.

Learning & Development: Music, Part 4 - Let them move!

Features

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

| Nursery World

Endless opportunities for children's expression, development and learning across all curriculum areas are provided by music and movement activities suggested by Margareta Burrell

Nursery Equipment: Books - A good read

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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

| Nursery World

Books for very young children should have lots of pictures and novelty features, but minimal text. Ruth Thomson spells out what to look for.

Primary schools awarded grants to spread phonics teaching

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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

| Nursery World

New grants have been awarded to schools that achieved top marks in the phonics screening check.

EYFS best practice: All about ... Linguistic Phonics

Features

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

| Nursery World

All educators should take note of an early literacy system now used in Northern Ireland. Wendy Scott and Janet Moyles spent two days in Belfast observing this new approach.

Touch-screen devices could close the gap in children's literacy

News

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.

Learning & Development: Language - Attention seeking

Features

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

| Nursery World

How can practitioners sustain children's attention and involvement when they don't share a language? Michael Jones shows one way.

EYFS Activities: Communication and language… Story of the week

Features

Monday, July 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Frequent repetition of stories can help to develop a child’s vocabulary, explains Rebecca Wilson

In My View - Once in a lullaby

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

| Nursery World

There is something truly wonderful about the fact that children and carers today still love to sing 'Baa Baa Black Sheep'. The first written version of this song appeared in a book of nursery rhymes back in 1744. That makes it a very old sheep indeed. In a world where huge technological changes are occurring on an almost daily basis, it's comforting to know that some things last.