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  • Tips for practitioners to support children's listening.

  • Listen and Play is a 28 part audio resource produced by the BBC for pre-school children to aid the development of early literacy skills. Each radio programme includes familiar songs, rhymes, stories and sound discrimination games to develop children's phonological awareness and confidence with spoken language. Visit www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio

  • Listening as a way of life is a series of 6 leaflets published by the NCB on listening to young children, with details of research, practice and methods. They include references to the Childcare Act 2006 and the EYFS. For more information and to download the leaflets visit www.ncb.org.uk

  • Listening to Young Children produced by Coram Family, is a comprehensive resource to support practitioners' understanding of what it means to include the voices of young children, and to respond to what young children have to say. The pack contains an introductory guide, a Reader, a Practitioner Handbook, and 11 individual case study booklets. There is also a CD-Rom which includes audiovisual material to illustrate the case studies. Published by Open University Press/McGraw Hill Education (2003). Cost £125. Website: www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335213723.html

  • Spaces to play (March 2005), written by Alison Clark and Peter Moss, explores how to listen to young children's views and experiences of their outdoor environment, in order to inform change. To order visit www.ncb-books.org.uk


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