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Improving comprehension in SATs
What is the most effective way of encouraging children to read modern stories in preparation for KS2 SATs?
As children approach the KS2 SATs and the 11+ reading comprehension papers, one of the most helpful activities for them is the reading of modern children’s stories.
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The easiest way to learn French!
Why is poetry easier to learn than prose? Why is a song easier to learn than poetry? And how can these findings be made use of, when teaching French?
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How am I supposed to remember that?
What is the most effective way of helping children remember everyday (but irregular) French words and phrases?
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I structure, therefore I can write
Sometimes, those working with Year 6 pupils can become frustrated by their use of repetitive and often unstructured sentences in their creative writing.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (14 Jul 22)
Here’s a quick summary of what’s been happening at Brilliant Publications this week.
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How do you approach a maths problem?
How can we show pupils that there can be many ways of solving a maths problem? They need to be able to identify a problem, and then how to solve it.
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Battling Child Illiteracy
We are now more dependent on the media than ever, yet England’s critically high illiteracy rates are hindering our understanding of it. How can we increase the youngest generation’s non-fiction comprehension, so…
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This is my world
Art is an extremely positive activity for children in primary school. Almost everyone who paints regularly will testify that art becomes important to their lives.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (23 June 2022)
What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? We’ve been lucky to escape Covid … until now
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Why teach this not that?
Why are schools teaching French at KS1 in England when it is not a part of the compulsory curriculum?
