This book is the first of its kind to help practitioners specifically develop children's language skills in Science. The book incudes:

• guidelines to help teachers set up, run and assess circle-time sessions
• ideas for promoting children's thinking skills and emotional literacy
• downloadable resources containing explanation and demonstration of the programme and its implementation, with comments from staff who have used it.

Marion Nash is an Educational Psychologist working for Plymouth Psychology Service; Jackie Lowe is a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (Early Years) for Plymouth NHS Teaching Primary Care Trust.