The Early Years Foundation Stage was endorsed by Montessori leaders at the launch of the organisation's guidance booklets for practitioners last week.
Everyday real-life activities such as making shopping lists are the most valuable way to encourage confident literacy skills, says Anne O'Connor.
Young children can cope with minor stresses and anxieties if they feel secure in their relationship with their carer, as Anne O'Connor explains.
The private talk a child engages in while playing is a tool in their language development, with a lot to tell practitioners, says Anne O'Connor.
A different way of observing children in role play challenges what practitioners offer in the learning environment, says Anne O'Connor.
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Schemas - patterns of repeated behaviour - are key to how young children learn and early years practitioners must respond to them, says Stella Louis.