Talking with Your Child: A Guide for Parents

A short, practical guide for parents and carers. The Department for Education identifies spoken language as the foundation of everything else in primary English — but it’s also the strand parents have the most influence over, because most of it happens at home, not at school. This guide explains why everyday conversation matters more than people realise, and gives four small, do-anywhere techniques: the “tell me more” rule, the “swap a word” game, the screen-off dinner, and the goldmine of a 10-minute story-time chat.