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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.
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Get a Grip!
One of the reasons that grammar is so important is that the way we speak is related to the way we think.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (13 October 2022)
Today is ‘National Train Your Brain Day’ in the United States. I thought it was a fun thing to celebrate. What do you like to do to stimulate your brain?
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The expansion of the viewpoint
Facts are important of course. But, in reality, the world is mostly not about facts but about our interpretation of the facts, and this interpretation evolves from our past experience, and our impressions of the world around us and how it affects us.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (29 September 2022)
Do we live up to our mission statement? Yesterday I was lucky enough to get out of the office to attend the Independent Publishers Guild’s Autumn Conference.
