World Book Day 2021: find the maths hiding on your bookshelf!

Celebrating World Book Day? Here, we share some maths that may be hiding on your bookshelf within some well-known children’s books…

Getting forensic with phonics: Ofsted’s focus on the early stages of reading

Common questions emerging from the new Ofsted EIF, and suggested next steps.

Well, buckle my shoe: it’s 32! Analysing the 2019 PSC

Download our free Phonics Screening Check analysis tool for the 2019 PSC words.

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...

You say potato… a reflection on the Phonics Screening Check 2018

As usual, the Phonics Check has had Kirsten Snook thinking, and chewing over: ‘what are these target words offering us the chance to home in on, and...

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.

Writing at ARE might be simpler than you thought!

Whilst working in a school recently and engaging in yet another bout of ITAF tussling, it came to my attention that both the Subject Leader and I were...

Do you sound good to listen to? (or ‘fluency: reading’s best-kept secret weapon’)

Fluency is undergoing somewhat of a revival in England. It has long been the poor relation, the magnolia paint let’s say, of reading; a general stage...