Resources and tools for early language development and parental engagement

Early years resources

Our early years resources will help schools, settings and parents support children’s development from birth to five.

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Support for multilingual families at home: Time together booklet

This easy-to-read guide now comes in 22 languages and is full of suggestions for how parents can support their young child's learning at home.

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Parents as partners: How to get families reading together in the early years

Our toolkit contains tips, research and best practice examples to help involve families with young children in reading.

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Understanding multilingualism in the early years

The most important message you can give parents is to keep their home language alive.

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Home to school transition in the early years

These cards have been designed to help practitioners support children’s day-to-day transition between home and setting.

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Tips for talking to your baby and young child

You don’t need to be an expert to help your child develop good communication skills. All you need is a listening ear and the willingness to chat to your child whenever you can.

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Digital technology and the early years

Technology can play a useful role in supporting early communication, language and literacy.

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Early years programmes

We train early years staff and volunteers to work with families, building parents’ confidence so that they can support their children’s communication, language and literacy skills at home.

First Words Together

This brand new programme helps parents support their babies' and toddlers' early communication development, leading up to their first words.
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Early Words Together at Two

Early Words Together at Two is an adaptation of our Early Words Together programme, designed specifically for families of two-year-olds.
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Early Words Together

Early Words Together helps parents support their young child’s literacy and language development.
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Everyone Ready for School

Everyone Ready for School engages parents in their young child’s learning through a series of fun, creative events held at the school the child will attend in September.
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HELLO framework

Audit language and communication provision in the early years.
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CPD & training

Our CPD offer develops practitioners’ skills and knowledge in the areas of communication, language and literacy (CLL) and social and emotional development.
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Early years research

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Playful storytelling: The role of interactive audio in building children’s literacy skills and engagement

Our new report commissioned by Tonies shows how audiobooks can help build reading engagement with younger children

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SHINE Everyone Ready for School evaluation: Year One

This report evaluates the impact of the National Literacy Trust’s Everyone Ready for School programme in Darlington which ran for two years from 2018 to 2020 with evaluation...

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Small Talk evaluation 2019

This report evaluates the impact of our Small Talk project in Peterborough and Swindon in 2019.

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First Words Together

Early Words Together at Two

Early Words Together

Everyone Ready for School

HELLO framework

CPD & training

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