Nursery World - Get a move on!

In the first part of a new series on extending your Foundation Stage book collection to support themes, Judith Stevens looks at vehicles All early years practitioners know how important it is that young children learn to read. Adults need to make reading and sharing books a pleasurable experience for all children. When children see books as exciting, interesting and fun they will choose to read for themselves and share books with others.

All early years practitioners know how important it is that young children learn to read. Adults need to make reading and sharing books a pleasurable experience for all children. When children see books as exciting, interesting and fun they will choose to read for themselves and share books with others.

It is really important to build up a book collection which will captivate young children and will help them to develop positive attitudes of themselves as readers. During 2005, this series looked at the ways in which practitioners could begin to build up a high-quality book collection incorporating classic story books, information texts, traditional tales, rhythmic and rhyming stories and books which deal with important issues.

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