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Author: Olivia Campbell

Dive into our extensive collection of expert insights and guidance, specially curated to support your child’s educational journey. From uncovering the nuances of different learning styles to detailed strategies for exam success, our archive is brimming with valuable advice.

What learning needs to happen before reading can start?

Then let us begin… Zanna Clarke, EYFS expert and Marketing and Communications Manager at Little Dukes, examines the learning needed before reading can start Learning to read starts well before formal phonics instruction. In the early years, children need rich experiences that help them tune into language, rhythm, and meaning. Pre-reading activities are powerful because […]

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Read, speak, think – beyond phonics

Melanie Saunders, Chief Education Advisor, High Performance Learning, discusses the link between language and understanding We have known about ‘The Word Gap’, for 20 years. Risley and Hart’, in their ominously titled study, The Early Catastrophe,found that children from disadvantaged backgrounds hear, on average, 30m fewer spoken words by the age of three than their […]