Yellow Door teams up with the National Literacy Trust
We're offering a 10% discount to subscribers to the Reading Connects, Early Reading Connects and Reading Champions programmes on the following resources:

Come Alive Nursery Rhymes
Come Alive Stories
Storyboxes
Our literacy through small-world play range

To claim your discount, call us on 0845 603 5309 and let us know which programme you're a member of.

The Natural World Storybox is a great hit at Busy Bees Kindergarten, a member of Early Reading Connects. Visit their blog to see how the Natural World Storybox inspired children to make up a host of stories.

Storyshaping set wins nasen award
The Storyshaping set by Julia Damassa and Meg Jones was the judges' favourite at the recent nasen awards, winning the Inclusive Resource for Primary Classrooms category. The Storyshapes have also been presented with:

Practical Preschool Awards - Silver
Talking Tots Best Toy Awards 2009 - winner in the Communication category

Find out more about Storyshaping

More award-winning Yellow Door resources
Come Alive Phonics: Playing with Sounds and Letters has won: 

ERA Awards 2009 - winner in the Special Educational Needs: Resources & Equipment (non-ICT)
nasen Awards 2009 - Inclusive Resource for Primary Classrooms (shortlisted)
Nursery World Equipment Awards 2009 (highly commended)
Practical Preschool Awards - Gold 

Find out more about Come Alive Phonics

The Come Alive Stories series has won a range of awards:

nasen & TES Awards 2007 - Inclusive Resource for Primary Classrooms
Practical Preschool Awards - Gold
Nursery World Equipment Awards 2006
ERA awards 2007 - Finalist

Find out more about Come Alive Stories

Come Alive Nursery Rhymes has also been recognised by various awards:

Practical Preschool Awards - Gold
Nursery World Awards 2008 - highly commended
ERA awards 2008 - Finalist

Find out more about Come Alive Nursery Rhymes

Helen Bromley's Storyboxes have also been awarded:

Practical Preschool Awards - Gold

Find out more about Helen Bromley's Storyboxes

Sue Palmer full of praise for Ragtag Rhymes
Here's what she said about the new series:

"Dr Seuss for the 21st century - a joyful blend of humour, rhyme and nonsense with real child appeal. It's great to find really good books that make practising and applying phonic knowledge meaningful and fun. If we want children to really enjoy reading while they are learning to read, we need more books like these!"

Literacy advisors have also welcomed Ragtag Rhymes:

"The rhymes in these books will encourage young children to play with language. These books are a great resource with lots of potential for children's independent application into writing."
Christine Barker, literacy and CLLD consultant, Cambridgeshire

"KS2/3 teachers are particularly interested in them for phonics interventions, as the off-beat humour is appropriate at that age."
Alison Bailey, literacy and CLLD consultant, York

Find out more about Ragtag Rhymes

Want more free Yellow Door downloads?
We've received so many positive comments about our free downloads that we've decided to give you more! We will refresh our downloads approximately every half term - so keep an eye on the Free downloads page.

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Sign up to our new email newsletter to stay informed about downloads as soon as they are updated. Just go to the Catalogue request page and fill in your name and email address to recieve the newsletter. (We promise not to bombard you, or share your details with anyone else.)

Come and meet us!
This term, Yellow Door will be attending the following events. We'd love to see you there!

23-24 April 2010 - TES Education North, Manchester
26-27 May 2010 - nasen live, Bolton
10-11 June 2010- National Primary Headteachers annual conference, Stratford upon Avon
25-26 June 2010 - The Nursery Show, Bournemouth
1 July 2010- Kent ICT exhibition, Ashford
1-2 July 2010- North Lincolnshire Early Years conference, Scunthorpe
7 July 2010 - Hampshire ICT conference, Basingstoke

Are you putting on an event?
If you're arranging a conference or event and you would like Yellow Door to provide a stand, please let us know! Call us on 0845 603 5309 or email info@yellow-door.net