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Create a home-learning environment to help your children

Find out how to build a great home learning environment.

Other useful resources

  • Tiny Happy People: a BBC service for parents and carers of the youngest learners. Their one-minute, one-message films offer tips and activities for language learning through play and explain babies’ brain development.
  • 50 things to do before you're 5: exciting, open-ended ideas for play for children aged 0 to 4.
  • BookTrust: reading tips, activities, story-time videos, book recommendations and more.
  • Words for life: fun activities for children of all ages from the National Literacy Trust.
  • The I CAN help enquiry service: talk to a speech and language therapist free of charge by phone, email, Skype or Facebook. Call 020 7843 2544 or email help@ican.org.uk.
  • Family time tips: free children’s activities from Early Years Alliance. They cover everything from healthy recipes to exploring science.
  • The Institute of Wellbeing: advice to support literacy development and wellbeing kits to help parents take care of their family and their mind.