Tag / Brilliant Publications
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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 -
‘Doing maths’ always needs a purpose
How can we make use of children asking “Why?” Exploiting and answering the question can be a very powerful tool when it comes to teaching and learning maths.
November 16, 2022 -
The play is the thing
Children enjoy imagining, and then acting out the situations. Which is why a simple play in French can stimulate children’s progress in studying the language.
November 2, 2022 -
Five free multi-sensory downloads
Not everyone has had the opportunity to try the multi-sensory approach, either because they have not come across such resources, or because there is a lingering thought that they are only available to teach spelling and maths.
October 22, 2022 -
Get a Grip!
One of the reasons that grammar is so important is that the way we speak is related to the way we think.
October 18, 2022 -
What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (29 September 2022)
Do we live up to our mission statement? Yesterday I was lucky enough to get out of the office to attend the Independent Publishers Guild’s Autumn Conference.
September 29, 2022 -
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?
September 13, 2022 -
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.
September 6, 2022 -
It’s a curious thing…
If a word or phrase in French can be shown to link to something we are already familiar with in English, then it is much more likely to be remembered.
August 31, 2022 -
I structure, therefore I can write
Sometimes, those working with Year 6 pupils can become frustrated by their use of repetitive and often unstructured sentences in their creative writing.
July 14, 2022
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