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…as experts in child development, all early years educators should help others, less informed than themselves, to understand that: •Communication and language development needs to come before any formal introduction to literacy. •Pressure to become literate too early in a child’s development will not raise standards. It will lead to failure, frustration and demotivation. This is not the road to success. •The development of young children’s communication and language comes primarily from tuning in to conversations that are meaningful to the child not merely in planning conversations that suit the purposes of the adult.

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Julie Fisher

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