Singing is good for your mind, body and spirit. It helps to nurture imagination and language skills: the patterns of traditional nursery...

The ability to segment words into sounds and the ability to blend sounds into words (oral blending and segmenting) are vital prerequisite...

Apostrophes can be tricky. Sometimes they form possessives. Sometimes they form contractions. Can they ever make something plural?...

Did anyone tell you practice makes perfect? That's only if you're practicing it right. Each time you spell a word wrong, you're...

As we start the new academic year, parents and carers are likely to be 'bombarded' over the next few weeks with a variety of letters and...

Fine motor skills are those that involve a refined use of the small muscles which control the hand, fingers and thumb. With the...

Art is the “first language” of the beginning reader and writer. Children usually draw or paint before they write. They use what might...

Names... we all have them. Nearly all names have a meaning and the naming of children is often marked by an important ceremony. For...

"It's terribly kind of you, Fox, but no – I'm going to have lunch with a gruffalo." If you recognise that line, you're likely a fellow...