Acknowledgements

This project was funded by the Nuffield Foundation through an Education grant.

The ideas and content of this manual build on several earlier projects based at the Centre for Reading and Language (University of York). We specifically wish to thank and acknowledge the work of:

Dr Julia Carroll (Coventry University)

Dr Paula Clarke (University of Leeds)

Dr Fiona Duff (University of Oxford)

Ally Haley (University of New Brunswick)

Prof Maggie Snowling (University of Oxford)

We would also like to thank Elizabeth Fieldsend and Glynnis Smith who acted as consultants on these projects.

This project is based on the Nuffield Early Language Intervention project (University of York) and we wish to thank the Nuffield Foundation for funding that project.

Furthermore, we would like to acknowledge the help and support of Sue Withey from the Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service (EMTAS) at Sheffield City Council and Beverley Booker from EMTAS at Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council in implementing this project.

We would also like to thank the settings who are participating in the Get Ready4Learning research project. Particular thanks go to the Teaching Assistants who are delivering the programmes and the children who are taking part.