Many young children need targeted support and encouragement to help develop their literacy skills. This book contains tried and tested activities to improve listening, verbal reasoning, and language skills in young children and shows you how to turn theory into fun, practical ideas for the classroom.

The author shows how to link activities to the Early Learning Goals and the National Literacy Strategy and the book includes:

• Lesson activities using puppets, nursery rhymes, story boxes, and picture books
• Suggestions for using role-play
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This resource for beginning teachers of young children provides practical, sensitive, and diverse advice on getting children settled, mealtimes, toileting, and beginning and ending of sessions.

'"Every Day a Good Da"y is an excellent classroom management tool for newly qualified early years practitioners. With its focus on daily routines it provides practical, sensitive and diverse advice on topics such as settling in children, mealtimes, toileting and beginning and ending of sessions. It also tackles more complex issues of working with groups of children and supporting positive behaviour. The clarity and simplicity of its presentation is appealing.' - "Barbara Isaacs, College Chief Executive, Montessori Centre International

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The book guides the reader through the...