How children learn – National Curriculum

Brilliant Publications How children learn interactive Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 Key Stage 3 Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) Spanish Spanish language Spanish Phonics Spanish vocabulary

Physical Spanish Phonics has been published

You have been asking for a Spanish version of our popular Physical French Phonics for ages and we have been working tirelessly on it for you. Well, the good news is it has now arrived! Physical Spanish Phonics is a multisensory approach to teaching Spanish phonics. Interactive video and audio Read more…

By Richard, 6 months ago

Brilliant Publications creative writing English Free creative teaching resource How children learn Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 language and literacy National Curriculum Primary school SEN Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Teaching Ideas

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How much support should you give your pupils for creative writing tasks? Supporting pupils with creative writing tasks is something of a balancing act. Too much support and it affects pupils’ creativity. Too little support and it affects pupils’ writing. To add to this, each pupil is likely to need Read more…

By Richard, 7 months ago

Brilliant Publications creative writing cross-curricular English How children learn Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 poems Primary school SEN Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) stories Teaching Ideas writing composition

Why do we have creative writing?

The imaginative use of words within a story goes back to the earliest days of humanity. And it still serves a purpose today. Humankind has always told stories. Everything from cave pictures to monuments like Stonehenge, from tales told around the flickering fire to the greatest cathedrals tell us about Read more…

By Richard, 8 months ago

Brilliant Publications Early years Early Years Foundation Stage How children learn Key Stage Key Stage 0 Nursery Nursery and Preschool preschool education purposeful play Science Teaching Ideas Technology

“Can you see the wind?”

Free worksheet series from Brilliant Publications On a windy day go outside with the children and watch streamers blowing. Ask the children whether they can see and feel the effects of the wind on their faces and clothes. Watch the trees and plants move in the wind. This is just one Read more…

By Richard, 10 months ago

Brilliant Publications English How children learn Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 National Curriculum Poems and poetry primary classroom Primary school reading comprehension reading skills Teaching Ideas

The trouble with reading …

Reading incorporates two activities. But what is the most successful way of pulling these two elements together? Most of us working in primary schools will have witnessed children who have the ability to decode texts at an appropriate level for their age, but who find it hard to grasp and Read more…

By Richard, 10 months ago

Brilliant Publications French French language How children learn Key Stage 2 lesson plans Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) primary classroom Primary school storybooks Teaching Ideas

Faster French with more understanding

What are the two activities that develop pupils’ ability with French far more effectively than any other? The answer is, as you may already know, through the use of stories and through singing. Because both stories and songs put the French the children hear and vocalise into a full context, Read more…

By Richard, 10 months ago

Brilliant Publications classics English Graphic revision guides How children learn Key Stage 3 literacy Secondary school SEN Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Teaching Ideas

Multi-Sensory English Literature

What is the most effective way of helping reluctant readers to study a set text? Over the past 100 years the multi-sensory learning approach pioneered by Maria Montessori has been shown to be a highly effective way of teaching – especially for students who do not respond strongly to single-sense Read more…

By Richard, 10 months ago

Brilliant Publications Early years Early Years Foundation Stage How children learn Key Stage Key Stage 0 National Curriculum Nursery and Preschool speaking and listening Teaching Ideas

Free Speaking and Listening resources

Free: speaking and listening resources for Early Years And before we go any further may I stress that the resources we are offering are completely free of charge. There is no trickery; no requirement to buy or anything like that. Our aim is simply to show you what is contained Read more…

By Richard, 10 months ago

Brilliant Publications Critical thinking English resources How children learn Key Stage 2 organizing data Primary school Reading Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Teaching Ideas Writing

How does work, work, these days?

Increasingly children and those in the world of work have stopped thinking in straight lines Straight-line thinking is what shop assistants used to use, in the days when we had shop assistants and, come to that, shops. You could walk into a shop and look around wondering where a particular Read more…

By Richard, 11 months ago

Brilliant Publications Foreign Languages French French Key Stage 2 How children learn Key Stage 2 lesson plans Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) National Curriculum Primary school Spanish Spanish KS2 Teaching Ideas

How did it all start?

Why knowing the origins of human communication helps us find better methods of teaching a foreign language. There is much debate as to the way in which human language developed as our species evolved. But many would agree that an early part of the evolution would have been the calling Read more…

By Richard, 11 months ago