This week we published the latest in a series of articles on shared reading in the early years, funded by the ESRC. For me, this work illustrates a crucial point: it is not easy, nor simple nor cheap…
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Read our findings from a randomised controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of the Story Starters volunteer-led book reading intervention in boosting children’s language development.

Dr Claire Noble (University of Liverpool) will give the final seminar of the 2017/18 series, on the role of shared book reading in language development. The seminar will take place at the University…

In a NEW evidence briefing, researchers from the University of Liverpool explore the most significant barriers to parental participation in programmes to boost child development according to recent an

I was fortunate enough to have just spent the last four weeks working with Professor Elaine Reese at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, all thanks to a LuCiD travel grant. One of the…

I visited my two-year-old niece over the Easter weekend. Before I’d had a chance to take my coat off, she came running over to me with her Oh No, George book under her arm, and asked me to read it…