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Children use the ground outside as a large-scale canvas PHOTO Claire Martin
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Mark making part 2: Link projects to your curriculum

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It's down to adults to make the experience of being read to an engaging one.
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Essential Resources: Maximise opportunities for literacy

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The whiteboard table is a particularly popular resource
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Mark making part 1: Scribble masterpieces

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We've explored… gardening

Child Development
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EYFS Best Practice: Observation – supporting wider learning

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Resources that enable role play in turn encourage children to expand their vocabulary
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Essential Resources: C&L 2 – playful talk

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CPD: Using the Early Years Library to support children's learning and development

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Profile - Rhyme writer Julia Donaldson

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Children and an adult scribe their stories
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Essential Resources: Equip to reflect the pedagogy of Vivian Gussin Paley

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EYFS Activities: An A to Z of enhancements - B is for books

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Dip into our pick of new picture books

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Children's books – new for Spring

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Painting with mops helps to develop children’s shoulder and elbow muscles
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Curriculum - In focus… ready to write

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One concern raised is that the framework’s approach to reading is too simplistic and phonics-based
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Best Practice - War of words

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Early mark making is the beginning of children’s journey to becoming confident writers when they are older
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EYFS Best Practice - All about… mark making

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The setting’s books are accessible to the children at all times
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EYFS Activities - An A to Z of learning: S is for stories

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