Tag / SATs
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Contemporary literature extracts to keep pupils engaged
Support KS2 pupils in maintaining positive attitudes to reading. There are so many incredible books being published every month by authors who are striving to entertain, educate and inspire their readers. How…
January 29, 2025 -
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.
March 11, 2024 -
The value of being real
Books containing high quality authentic fiction extracts or non-fiction passages. Introduce the skills needed for KS2 SATs and 11+ Reading Comprehension papers.
September 20, 2023 -
What makes success?
Practise the retrieval and recording of information and develop the ability to answer inference, prediction and sequencing questions.
June 14, 2023 -
What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications?
How do we commission artwork? We like to use a variety of illustration styles in our books so that they look fresh and different. Having said that, we are very fortunate to…
January 13, 2023 -
We have a crisis
How can we help children to be able to distinguish factual information from fantasy?
September 27, 2022 -
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!
September 22, 2022 -
What’s been happening at Brilliant Publications? (1 September 2022)
I always love to receive copies of our new books. Today we received copies of Kate Heap’s latest edition to the Developing Reading Comprehension Skills series.
September 1, 2022 -
Children have opinions!
What is the best way to ensure that KS2 understand that there are many different types of fiction?
May 6, 2022 -
What’s new at Brilliant Publications? (27 January 2022)
We were thrilled to read the review for A Brilliant IQ: Gift or Challenge? by Brian Page in the February edition of the Mensa magazine.
January 27, 2022
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