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...

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...

A heartfelt apology: determiners – forgive me

Martin Galway is a Teaching and Learning Adviser for English at Herts for Learning. He has been unduly unkind about determiners for the past couple of...

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...