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Confident readers / good readers…
It is undeniably true that good readers are normally confident readers. While of course confident readers are invariably good readers. So which one does one seek to boost first?
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The value of being real
Books containing high quality authentic fiction extracts or non-fiction passages. Introduce the skills needed for KS2 SATs and 11+ Reading Comprehension papers.
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The best way in
Less able students can find studying a book in preparation for GCSE exams daunting as they find reading a whole book challenging.
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Who ever thinks of this?
By working on sentence structures in a lively and interesting way for 15 minutes a day, pupils will gain immediate positive feedback from their success.
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Give me a title
Some children will respond to “What is a Butterphant?” with images and ideas flashing into their minds. Others may respond – “I don’t know what to write”. Frustrating.
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Be original, but follow the rules
How can we teach children to follow the rules of English, and be creative at the same time? Creativity can appear simple, but is actually rather complicated.
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Proving this teaching method works…
“Daily Sentence Structures” is a totally practical guide to the subject which really does lead to rapid and significant improvements in pupils’ writing.
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Improve, stimulate, save and stretch
Where children’s imaginations are stimulated, so inevitably is their writing – which will naturally benefit the children’s work throughout the school.
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What makes success?
Practise the retrieval and recording of information and develop the ability to answer inference, prediction and sequencing questions.
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Confidence is everything
What is the one thing that more than anything else dissuades a child from reading and writing? The answer to this question is “confidence.”
