The Education Endowment Foundation’s updated Early Years Toolkit, which summarises findings from the ‘best available’ international evidence, shows that interactive reading and teaching and modelling vocabulary can have a ‘very high impact’ of up to seven months on children’s learning, for a ‘very low cost’.
Of the ten topics included in the Toolkit, each is accompanied by an ‘average impact’ in months progress, alongside information on cost and strength of the evidence base. Parental engagement, for example, can boost children’s learning by an average of five months and giving children extra hours of early years provision can help them progress by up to three months.
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