The face of early childhood education continues to change. In Australia, the national early
childhood guidelines, Early Years Learning Framework (2009) and the National Quality …

This paper examines how literacy is defined and enacted by teachers in early childhood
programmes pointing to the differing ways views of early literacy impact practice. It is argued …

WITH THE RECENT PUBLICATION of the Early Years Learning Framework for all Australian
children during the years before they start school, there is now for the first time a national …

That an educator should read texts aloud to children is a cornerstone of literacy pedagogy.
And although it is well established that reading aloud to children occurs frequently across …

This paper considers how policy developments in the last decade in England have impacted
on and'shaped'the curriculum for literacy in early childhood and views about how young …

New Zealand was considered a leader in the field of early childhood education when it
developed the curriculum document for the field, during the 1990s. Te Whāiki (Ministry of …

The quality of children's literacy experiences in the years prior to school impacts on their
continuing literacy development (ALEC 1995). In a recent, government-funded research …

The importance of children experiencing a successful transition to school is well established
in research literature. Central to this is including the children themselves in the conversation …

Reflecting upon and learning from one's working experiences in order to inform future
practice is a mark of any professional. The dynamic structure of the early childhood …

The literacy understandings, values and skills that children bring to early childhood settings
are based upon their home and community experiences. If what they bring is recognised …