Giving children the skills to become confident spellers has a huge impact across the curriculum – not only helping them approach their weekly spelling tests with ease, but importantly helping them make effective vocabulary choices in all of their writing. Here are some top tips from our resources to help. Make the most of staff […]
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Good comprehension requires a range of different knowledge and skills. So we’ve gathered together some of our top teaching tips and free resources to support your comprehension teaching. Advice from Nikki Gamble, Series Advisor, Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks Developing vocabulary During reading, children are challenged by words they don’t understand such as words that […]
Read moreLindsay spoke on the purpose and the value of Guided Reading at Oxford University Press’ English Conference, Passing on the Passion, in London on 16th June. Here he addresses the most common concerns and teases out answers to these questions in follow up to his seminar. You’ll find a selection of resources and videos from the day on our website . I love guided reading. But we have […]
Read moreThis blog post looks at the recent Key Stage Two (KS2) maths assessments. As a maths coordinator and year 6 teacher, I was very interested to see the new tests and hoped for my year 6s that they would be fair. My first impression is that the levels are appropriate and that the coverage matches […]
Read moreWe’ve done them before and we’ll do them again. That’s a certainty. Although this year there is so much uncertainty surrounding the SATs that I fear the children may begin to pick up on it, which is wholly inexcusable. We’ve all had the bad day when the entire class has begun to feast on your […]
Read moreWith Easter fast approaching, teachers with Y2 classes will be increasingly conscious of the National Curriculum tests which their pupils will be taking in the summer term. Parents will also be anxious to know what’s changed under the revised curriculum and how they can best support their children over the statutory assessment period. Although the […]
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