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Brilliant Publications English Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 language and literacy lesson plans National Curriculum Primary Primary school

Proven ways of improving your children’s creative writing

The Boost Creative Writing series of books teaches the Programmes of Study for writing composition in the 2014 National Curriculum for England. The activities provide additional reinforcement of key skills for slower learners. We all know that SEN pupils and slower learners need extra support to help them to become Read more…

By Richard, 1 week ago

Brilliant Publications English english language Grammar Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 KS2 National Curriculum Primary school Punctuation Teaching Ideas

Free activity materials from the Grammar and Punctuation Series Pack

Take advantage of these free activity materials from the Grammar and Punctuation Series Pack Year 1: Nouns are names Year 2: Noisy verbs Year 3: Preposition opposites Year 4: The Problem of ‘me’ or ‘I’ Year 5: Hyphens Year 6 Words that help your writing Request your free worksheets The Grammar and Punctuation Series Pack contains six photocopiable Read more…

By Richard, 1 month ago

Brilliant Publications investigations Key Stage Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 Mathematics maths Maths Problem Solving National Curriculum Primary school Problem solving Teaching Ideas

Can your pupils help us to solve some of our problems?

Urgent Appeal We have an abundance of problems, so many in fact that we have three entire books full of them and desperately need your primary school pupils to help us to solve them! Multiplication strategies They are problems of a mathematical nature which is why we are contacting you Read more…

By Richard, 1 month 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, 2 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, 2 months ago

Brilliant Publications Key Stage Key Stage 2 KS2 Mathematics maths National Curriculum Primary school puzzles Teaching Ideas

There are two maths: one is better

What is the most effective way of giving KS2 pupils an understanding of how maths actually works? There is no doubt that the rote learning of times tables is helpful to most pupils. But for progress to be made beyond that point children also need to understand the meanings behind Read more…

By Richard, 2 months ago

Brilliant Publications Bullying Citizenship English Free creative teaching resource Key Stage Key Stage 2 KS2 National Curriculum Primary school PSHE speaking and listening Teaching Ideas

Get talking about bullying

Use this free resource to develop your childrens’ spoken language skills by highlighting a topic they will have been hearing about this week. ‘Some people suggest it is best to give in and do what the bully wants. But that won’t stop the bullying. You shouldn’t just put up with Read more…

By Richard, 2 months ago

Brilliant Publications Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 Mathematics maths National Curriculum Primary school times tables

The 3Ms of times tables

The three factors within the extraordinary 3M method of teaching times tables. There are indeed three factors that need to be present if all children are going to learn their times tables in good time. First, the children need to be motivated. Second, they need to be taught using a method Read more…

By Richard, 3 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, 3 months ago

Brilliant Publications English Grammar Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2 lesson plans National Curriculum Primary school Punctuation Reading Writing

To subject or not to subject?

The one thing about the rules of grammar is that without context they ain’t much help Now I know “ain’t” isn’t a word that you would want to encourage in a child’s essay – unless, of course, you had a particularly precocious writer in the class who had already developed Read more…

By Richard, 3 months ago