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The way to a parent's heart is through role play, as one Sure Start team has found. Judith Napier reports Parents tend not to be switched on by the prospect of a workshop on how to communicate with...
Children will learn to read using synthetic phonics by the age of five from next September, following recommendations from the interim independent review into the way they are taught to read....
The protest against Government plans to introduce a phonics reading test for six-year-olds is gaining force.
Two-thirds of children who took the pilot Phonics Screening Check for six-year-olds last summer failed the test, Department for Education statistics show.
Efforts to improve young children's health and safeguard their well-being are being strengthened by closer multi-agency working, in a community project detailed by Alison Tonkin, Cath Alderson and...
Nannies with a bit of spare time who would like to add another string to their bow might consider helping children's literacy skills through the Readability scheme. Volunteers are needed to go into...
Chris Barber is the librarian at the Sunshine Library in Wakefield, the country's first Sure Start purpose-built library for under-fours Monday
Early years experts have welcomed the National Year of Reading with the proviso that parents must receive the right support.
Adopting the dialogic approach to reading with a child will help parents, and practitioners, to advance the child's oral language. Joan Kiely explains the method and its importance.
A conference on engaging men in the early years will be held at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford later this month.