literacy

We could all benefit from spending a little more of our time ‘teaching’ correct spellings!

This series of essential handbooks for primary school teachers is filled with strategies and photocopiable

Classroom activity: Designing a shoebox around a novel you love.

Literacy and Topic in Context – First published in the UKEd Magazine

Discrete sentence level lessons in my classroom are very few and far between because I

One of my colleagues, @sarahjpe, introduced me to the Flipped Classroom Modelled at a teaching

You ought to know about Reciprocal Reading. If you have children who are super decoders

Babies need picture books. I recently watched a little boy, not much more than a

I was once a National Strategy English consultant (nice work if you could get it);

Parental engagement has a positive effect on a child’s academic attainment — regardless of age or socio-economic status

Agreeing upon the levels of pupils progress in the primary classroom in terms of writing

I never realised that doing group work could be such a controversial activity in teaching

If we don’t want struggling readers to lose confidence, we need to radically change how