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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
We were very saddened by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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The art of practice
Why does practising maths work – and what does it do to your brain? There is no doubt that practising anything can make one better at performing the task.
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This not that
Suppose your blank sheet of paper, rather than being white, was black, and the ink you were writing with was white. Would that change what you wrote?
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications
We’re 29 years old! So we’d like to offer you a 29% discount!
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We move from the known into the unknown
Try teaching sentence structure in a way that lets each child to master one structure and then move to the next. They will soon have a range of structures to draw on.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (1 September 2022)
I always love to receive copies of our new books. Today we received copies of Kate Heap’s latest edition to the Developing Reading Comprehension Skills series.
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Why it’s easier to learn when there’s a rhythm
Children can find learning a song easier than learning a set of sentences. This can help us find ways of developing and speeding up learning in many area.
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It’s a curious thing…
If a word or phrase in French can be shown to link to something we are already familiar with in English, then it is much more likely to be remembered.
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The problem of brightness
What problems does having a high IQ bring to children, and how can they be best helped? For many of us working in a primary school classroom, a fair amount of our time is spent showing children how not to make mistakes
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I play therefore I learn
What is the single most effective way of teaching English grammar at Key Stage 2? Give children the chance to play with and utilise the grammar they have learned.
