Writing instruction in early education should be about more than letter formation and penmanship, argue researchers who found preschool teachers don't often encourage writing for communication ...

The children, who still go to nursery school, have to spend their weekend or free time to go to writing practice classes. Quynh Van, a parent in Cau Giay district, said her daughter still goes to the ...

Imagine the scene. You have begun to write the shopping list and have left a pen and paper on the table. A series of peculiar marks have now appeared and your child beams and announces, 'I can write ...

It could be that the act of writing down values and beliefs is the next big fat-buster, as part of a mental diet strategy. Reuters Do you remember what you learned in pre-school? It probably involved ...

Sometimes friends ask me what drew me to poetry, what first compelled me to write poems? And my answer is two-fold: jump rope tunes and nursery rhymes. These oral forms of poetry fostered my love of ...

In this year's Nursery World student essay competition, we asked participants to write on the theme of 'caring for birth to threes'. Here we reprint in full the winning entry, with extracts from the ...