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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
We’re 30 years old – so we’d like to give you a present! I’ve just realised that it was 30 years ago this month that we brought out our first book, How to be Brilliant at Writing Stories.
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What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
This week was the Independent Publishers Guild’s Conference. I learnt about developments in artificial intelligence, social media and supply chain solutions.
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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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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. It’s with this in mind that we have produced a book of 170 practical teaching ideas and strategies that will appeal to boys. …
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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 when music comes their way, and so they respond through movement as a way of expressing their pleasure – which in turn is…
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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 enjoyable activity for all children. But how? Especially with children who proclaim that they hate writing and can’t do it, and indeed don’t…
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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 Seccombe, an MFL teacher and consultant in the north-east of England, has written a very interesting blog about teaching Spanish phonics. Clare trained…
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