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What’s new at Brilliant Publications?
Brilliant Publications has adapted well to the pressures on school budgets. It increased its range of formats and series and renewed its focus on value for money.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
I know lots of you are on half term, so I thought I’d keep this week’s newsletter light and start with a humorous story. How is a sailboat like a cow?
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How can comics help with reading comprehension?
How can comics help with reading comprehension? Many students find it difficult to remember what happened in a book and in what order.
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Activities that will appeal to boys
How to encourage boys to engage in their learning. There’s no doubt that some class activities appeal more to boys than to girls. Not exclusively so, of course, but in general terms.…
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
As it is 14th February next week, here’s a little French Valentine’s Day poem for you!
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For the more able
What are the most effective ways of stretching the minds of more able children at KS2? More able children are as varied in their individual attributes as everyone else in the class. Therefore a wide range of approaches and activities is needed to provide them with the stimulus that they need in school.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
The author of our Cracking Creative Writing books has sent me some wonderful brain games he thought would be great additions to my newsletter. I thought so too.
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Music is the food of knowledge
Just as young children learn the language they hear around them in infancy, so there is a similar inborn inclination to respond to music. Children of course realise that they feel good…
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Creative Writing: Cracked
What is the most effective way of giving children the confidence to explore and experiment with their writing? The aim is something that we can all aspire to making creative writing an…
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Teaching phonics to aid pronunciation
I am in the group of pupils who (a while ago now!) did not have grammar and punctuation taught in their English lessons. This made learning other languages quite a challenge. Clare…
