Shining a light in the winter months

Winter festivities activities for the primary classroom.

Oh, what a Journey!

In need of inspiration? Join us on a journey to see how one group of Hertfordshire junior schools reignited a passion for reading and writing.

It’s no doddle writing a good model!

Penny Slater presents her view that a good model for writing should always be the starting point for planning successful written outcomes.

Love that Book: The Spider and the Fly by Tony DiTerlizzi, based on the cautionary tale by Mary Howitt

Lure the children into some deliciously dark reading and writing this autumn with DiTerlizzi’s delightfully macabre interpretation of Mary Howitt’s...

Take one book: Christmas special!

Christmas is coming, and it is time to dig out the usual array of Christmassy texts to inspire a seasonal unit of reading and writing.

researchED 2017 workshop 2: primary grammar - what really matters in transition

Martin Galway outlines his presentation at this year’s researchEd conference on primary grammar and the transition to key stage 3.

If print be the food of love, read on!

End of summer hols? Survived the motorway? Survived nagging guilt to work on the beach?! Settle back with Kirsten Snook, English Teaching and Learning...

Year 6 writing – in search of GDS: verb forms – the key to control

Martin Galway completes his series of blogs on the Greater Depth writing standard for year 6 writing and makes good on his earlier promise to return...

Expectations for handwriting: you’re write to be confused!

Following on from my last blog, where I unpicked the KS1 exemplification materials and moderation guidance, I felt the urge to spend a little of my...

As easy as A B fluenCy!

Penny Slater, Deputy Lead Adviser for Primary English shares some class-based exploration of reading fluency.