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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (22 September 2022)
We love this illustration by Gaynor Berry for the new edition of Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension, Year 2 (coming next year). We hope you do too!
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Resistance is dangerous
Multiplication tables linked to superheroes with whom the children can identify, taking them through step by step, with the superhero guiding the way.
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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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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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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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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.
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How to begin to write
With each new project, an experienced writer will often find a new style and approach. What does this tell us about helping children write creatively?
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The one approach they need
What is the one approach that can help pupils and students learning French, more than any other?
It is often suggested that pupils and students appear to have greater imaginations than adults, and there is a good reason for this. -
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Assessment made simple
What is the most efficient and effective way of assessing learning in maths? Where assessing the progress of children in maths is a separate activity from the day to day teaching and learning, then this assessment adds to the workload of the teacher.
