This is how Polylino supports the Early Years framework

• Literacy – The smart device app provides children with another way to engage with books and develop a life-long love of reading.
• Communication and Language – Provides a greater range of books in your classroom, allowing more children to read and actively engage with stories and picture books, as well as enriching and widening their vocabulary to support later reading comprehension. We want the app to be used in addition to traditional books as a way to increase the library of titles which children can access.
• Understanding the World – Our library of books engage with a wide range of topics and themes, thereby allowing the children to broaden their horizons and awareness of the world around them.
• Inclusive and accessible – The digital service is an effective reading solution for those children with SEND or who don’t speak English as their home language.
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development – Many of our books allow children to explore emotions and social circumstances which enables them to develop their personal, social and emotional skills.
• Home Access – As an add-on to Polylino, nurseries can choose to purchase Polylino Home Access which allows children to use Polylino at home with their family and continue their learning journey outside the classroom.

Early Years books

Polylino features books that have been specially selected to help support children’s learning across the EYFS Statutory Framework.  We are in constant contact with publishers and continually adding new titles to further aid children’s learning in the Early Years and Foundation Stages. Titles currently support all seven areas of learning and development:

• Communication and Language
• Physical development
• Personal, social and emotional development
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the World
• Expressive Arts and Design

Meet Jake Hope, our children’s literature expert

Jake Hope is an experienced children’s book and reading development consultant, named as one of the UK’s top librarians of the future in the National Love Libraries Campaign. He has written extensively on children’s reading development and librarianship, contributing chapters to numerous books, producing the SLA publication on diversity and inclusion and previews for The Bookseller. He is the author of the recently published book on visual literacy, Seeing Sense, (Facet Publishing, 2020) and will release his first children’s book, Cheesed Off! in spring 2022.

Jake is also the Chair of the working party for the UK’s oldest and most prestigious children’s book prizes, the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. He is passionate about children’s books and promoting a love of reading and writing with children, schools and families.