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How can you enhance reading for meaning skills?
If we ask children to read, understand and answer questions from a passage, that passage should engage their attention, and the teacher’s attention as well.
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Help pupils communicate effectively
Unlock your pupils’ potential Foundational literacy skills are the cornerstone of a pupil’s ability to excel in various subjects. Spelling is no exception, and its benefits extend far beyond the ability to…
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Confidence is key
Making children more confident in their reading and writing is vital. But what is the most effective way of giving children more confidence in reading and writing?
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Of course you can paint!
Use this clearly structured, skills-based approach for teaching the development of painting skills at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.
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Celebrate World Poetry Day with lions in the garden!
Download ‘Lions in the Garden’ for World Poetry Day. You will also get a mixture of short and long question types linked to the reading content domains to try.
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How to boost confidence
Strategies are our short cuts to solutions. Once we feel we have strategies in place for each new eventuality, we invariably feel happier and more confident.
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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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What is the best way to explain difficult news?
Terrorism and extremism are not easy subjects to teach. The Manchester Arena attack will raise questions as it is in the news again while Martyn’s Law progresses through parliament.
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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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Listen mum, I speak French
Teaching French with short plays can be so beneficial. By rehearsing and performing in French, children read, speak and hear the words.
