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Art lessons promote creativity – obviously
Painting as a class activity promotes reflection, self-criticism, visual-spatial abilities, and the willingness to evaluate, improve and experiment.
January 10, 2023 -
What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
Happy New Year! I hope you had a good break and were able to recharge your batteries. Talking of recharging batteries, one night many years ago when I was putting my son…
January 5, 2023 -
Why use songs and actions to teach languages?
Many of us who listen to popular music find that although we have never tried to learn the lyrics, we can in fact recall them for a large number of such songs.
December 19, 2022 -
Enough stories to last forever
What do all good stories, all good lessons and indeed all assemblies, do at the very start? They always start by grabbing attention.
December 14, 2022 -
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Your chance to win a free book! Please let us know which of our books you’d really like to own and why. We will give everyone who responds to this question a 20%…
December 8, 2022 -
We don’t all learn how to spell the same way
There is nothing wrong with remembering how to spell “could” by using the memory jogger “could old unicorns like doughnuts?”
December 7, 2022 -
Just imagine!
How can you inspire children to try different approaches and ideas to writing? There’s a very old Chinese story about a young boy who is given a paintbrush. The boy is told…
December 6, 2022 -
Has anything like this happened to you?
We love hearing anecdotes from our authors. Our author of the month, Meg Fabian, recently shared this memory with us… Back in the early 70s I was teaching in an infant school…
December 2, 2022 -
What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
If you could put any of our books on your Christmas list, which would you choose? OK, I realise that our books are unlikely to appear very near the top of anyone’s…
December 1, 2022
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