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‘Doing maths’ always needs a purpose
How can we make use of children asking “Why?” Exploiting and answering the question can be a very powerful tool when it comes to teaching and learning maths.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
I’ve been trying to learn to speak some Czech. It uses the same alphabet as English, but the phonics is unlike any other language I have ever studied.
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Is it really possible to teach SPaG with games?
What child can resist the part of their English coursework that is titled “How to be rude – like William Shakespeare”? Or how about “A Martian is learning English”?
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What’s the difference between fact and fiction?
What’s the difference between history and fiction? It’s a valid question as we ensure children understand the difference between what is real and what is not.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
Welcome back after half term! I hope you had a good break. Guess how many trade visitors attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair This year’s fair was noticeably smaller than in pre-Covid years,…
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Author of the month – David Horner
David was our author of the month in October. So we can get to know him better, we asked David for some interesting facts about himself. Here is what he told us…
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The play is the thing
Children enjoy imagining, and then acting out the situations. Which is why a simple play in French can stimulate children’s progress in studying the language.
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How do you spell Tuesday?
Children who develop a range of strategies to help them with spelling, are the children who more readily learn to spell and read words that are unfamiliar.
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Five free multi-sensory downloads
Not everyone has had the opportunity to try the multi-sensory approach, either because they have not come across such resources, or because there is a lingering thought that they are only available to teach spelling and maths.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications (20 October 2022)
This week I’m at Frankfurt Book Fair. It is the biggest international book fair in the world, with publishers, distributors, booksellers and people from other book-related industries coming together.
