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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
Happy New Year! I hope you had a good break and were able to recharge your batteries. Talking of recharging batteries, one night many years ago when I was putting my son…
January 5, 2023 -
Why use songs and actions to teach languages?
Many of us who listen to popular music find that although we have never tried to learn the lyrics, we can in fact recall them for a large number of such songs.
December 19, 2022 -
Enough stories to last forever
What do all good stories, all good lessons and indeed all assemblies, do at the very start? They always start by grabbing attention.
December 14, 2022 -
We don’t all learn how to spell the same way
There is nothing wrong with remembering how to spell “could” by using the memory jogger “could old unicorns like doughnuts?”
December 7, 2022 -
Just imagine!
How can you inspire children to try different approaches and ideas to writing? There’s a very old Chinese story about a young boy who is given a paintbrush. The boy is told…
December 6, 2022 -
Has anything like this happened to you?
We love hearing anecdotes from our authors. Our author of the month, Meg Fabian, recently shared this memory with us… Back in the early 70s I was teaching in an infant school…
December 2, 2022 -
There’s some weird rules out there
In terms of clarity of speech and writing, grammatical rules need to be understood and used, but it is not easy to stop and give the children pause for thought.
November 30, 2022 -
Maths is irrelevant
There is a tendency among some adults to suggest that maths is irrelevant to their daily lives. And yet of course we all know that to be a fully functioning adult, one…
November 29, 2022 -
What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
Integrating phonics into your foreign language lessons talk at the Language Show. Do you support the re-introduction of compulsory languages at GCSE? Do you remember what life was like before central heating?
November 17, 2022
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