In the fourth part of a series on establishing a book collection for children in the Foundation Stage, Judith Stevens considers rhythmic and rhyming stories Every early years setting needs a wide ...

It’s time to rhyme. Take a look and find the kind that sounds sublime. Limericks are funny, five-lined poems. They follow an AABBA rhyming pattern, meaning that the first, second and fifth lines rhyme ...

In cultures all over the world, children are exposed to language through repetition, songs, chants, nursery rhymes, and other forms of play. Deaf culture is no different. Leala Holcomb and Jonathan ...

Repeating favourite rhymes and acting out gestures to songs are more than just fun for the youngest children. Jennie Lindon explains their role in development Babies are born ready to be social, to ...

I grew up in a household where food, music, and language reigned. My mother cooked the most mouth-watering curry chicken and was a stickler for words. While in med school, my father was in an ...