Good nursery schools provide activities that encourage physical, intellectual, social and moral development but this does not mean that preparation for literacy is not equally appropriate. Evidence demonstrates that many nursery age children are interested in reading and in making letters - particularly their own name. So although nursery schools are not didactically teaching reading and writing they can encourage both activities by providing the setting and the tools and by modelling both the reading of books and the writing of names, messages and classroom print. This book describes models of good practice in nursery schools and pays particular attention to talking about reading stories to young children.
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Robin Campbell was previously a primary school teacher and headteacher. He is now Emeritus Professor of Primary Education at the University of Hertfordshire. He completed a PhD with research into infant children learning to read. A more recent study led to the publication of Reading with Alice and in the USA Read-Alouds with Young Children.
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