Literacy

Assessment DfE Exams 

Do We Test Children Too Much?

17th April 201917th April 2019 @TeacherToolkit 391 Views 0 Comments Assessment, Baseline, Curriculum, Department for Education, England, Exams, EYFS, Finland, Gaming, Hong Kong, Jeremy Corbyn, Literacy, NAHT, NAHT Accountability Commission, Nick Gibb, off rolling, Phonics, Phonics Check, Primary, SAT, SATs, Singapore, Stress, Testing, Tim Oates

Reading Time: 4 minutes Do our schools in England test children too much, particularly at primary level?

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Curriculum Publication Teaching and Learning 

What Words Are Used In The Teaching Profession?

28th March 201929th March 2019 @TeacherToolkit 515 Views 0 Comments dictionary, EBI, English, Literacy, OED, Oxford English Dictionary, WAGOLL, words, workplace, WWW

Reading Time: 2 minutes What words do you use at work that are not used anywhere else?

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Competition Review Seasonal 

Watch The Lollies Book Awards ‘Live’ From Your Classroom

7th February 201911th February 2019 Holly Gardner 456 Views Book Awards, books, Competition, Funny books, Laugh out loud book awards, Literacy, Lollie, Michael Rosen, Product Review, Reading, Scholastic, win

Reading Time: 2 minutes What’s the funniest book of the year?

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Assessment Students Teaching and Learning 

5 Tips For Live Displays

8th January 20196th January 2019 Helen Sharpe 1011 Views 0 Comments Alex Quigley, Andy Tharby, classroom displays, Clever Classrooms, content, David Didau, displays, distraction, Doug Lemov, HEAD project, Literacy, live modelling, Mary Shelley, Memory, Peps Mccrae, Presentation

Reading Time: 3 minutes How can we improve our displays?

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Podcasts Research Teaching and Learning 

Podcast 34: How Do You Teach Like A Champion?

24th November 20189th March 2019 Joshua McGovern 1308 Views 1 Comment #TTkitPodcast, charter schools, Doug Lemov, Evidence-based, leadership, Literacy, Memory, Podcast, Reading, Research, Teach Like a Champion, United States

Reading Time: 1 minute Why is research evidence based teaching so important?

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Policies Primary Resources 

12 Tips To Engage Reluctant Readers

18th October 201818th October 2018 Laura George 1908 Views 1 Comment Author, book club, book tasting, Drop Everything And Read, Harry Potter, libraries, Literacy, reluctant readers, speaking and listening

Reading Time: 4 minutes How can we motivate children to read?

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Students Teaching and Learning Technology 

#1MinCPD: Supporting Dyslexia Learners

3rd October 20184th October 2018 Hanna Beech 1424 Views 2 Comments #1minCPD, #dyslexiaawarenessweek, calculate, dictionary, Dyslexia, ICT, iPad, Literacy, Maths, Reading, SEN, Special Educational Needs, Spelling, Writing

Reading Time: 1 minute How can you give dyslexia learners independence in the classroom?

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Mental Health Parenting Resources 

Literacy And Life Expectancy

8th September 20187th September 2018 @TeacherToolkit 1338 Views 1 Comment Alain de Botton, Assembly, Functionally Illiterate, Gurdjieff, Hanif Kureshi, Jeanette Winterson, Life Expectancy, Literacy, Middle Class, National Literacy Trust, Nietzsche, Osho, Poverty, Sophie's World, The British Class Survey, The National Literacy Trust, Upper Class, Working Class

Reading Time: 4 minutes What are you doing to raise the profile of literacy in your everyday life?

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Curriculum Review 

5 Videos To Encourage Active Learning

2nd May 201818th May 2018 Holly Gardner 2103 Views active learning, BBC, Competition, dancing, Fred the Red, free resources, Grammar, Literacy, Manchester United, Maths, measurement, numeracy, Premier League, Product Review, Punctuation, singing, Super Movers, times tables, Videos

Reading Time: 2 minutes How can you get your students active whilst learning?

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Parenting Podcasts Students 

Podcast 15: How Can We Increase Children’s Vocabulary?

21st April 201812th November 2018 Iesha Small 1603 Views 1 Comment #100vote, #BETT2018, #TTkit100Women, English, Entrepreneur, illustrations, Literacy, mrs wordsmith, Podcast, Reading, Sofia Fenichell, vocabulary, women

Reading Time: 1 minute How can we increase children’s vocabulary?

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CPD Teaching and Learning 

#1MinCPD: Encouraging Reading

18th April 20185th May 2018 Hanna Beech 1852 Views 0 Comments #1minCPD, authors, Creativity, empathy, fiction, Fun, learning investment, Literacy, non-fiction, Reading, vocabulary, Writing

Reading Time: 1 minute How can we encourage a love of reading in our pupils?

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CPD Primary Teaching and Learning 

#1MinCPD: Steady Sentences

28th March 20185th May 2018 Hanna Beech 1605 Views 0 Comments #1minCPD, editing, emerging writers, Literacy, Primary, sentence starters, steady sentences, vocabulary, Writing

Reading Time: 1 minute How can we help emerging writers?

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Assessment Teaching and Learning 

Whole Class Guided Reading: More Ideas

10th March 20182nd April 2018 Hollie Anderton 8925 Views 2 Comments Alison Dawkins, Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time (DIRT), Differentiation, editing, guided reading, Jo Payne, Literacy, Lois Lowry, reading carousel, Solomon Kingsnorth, vocabulary, whole-class guided reading (WCGR)

Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you tried whole class guided reading yet?

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Parenting Seasonal Students 

5 Activities for World Book Day

27th February 20186th March 2018 Christina Brown 5702 Views 0 Comments book cover, Competition, Creativity, film, Library, Literacy, performance, poetry, Reading, speaking and listening, World Book Day, Writing

Reading Time: 3 minutes What can you do for World Book Day?

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Policies Politics Students 

The Real Disadvantage Gap In Our Schools

21st January 201826th February 2019 @TeacherToolkit 5141 Views 1 Comment @Edu_Historian, achievement, Algebra, attainment gap, Disadvantaged, Family, Home, Jack Schneider, Learning, Literacy, Magritte, Massachusetts, Money, poor, Progress, Pupil Premium, Reading, rich, scores, social mobility, socio-economic, Sommerville, Tests, the nook

Reading Time: 4 minutes Does having a family culture and structure at home, which aligns to the values of a school, equate to success?

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CPD 

CPD Picks of The Week

11th January 201814th January 2018 Holly Gardner 1582 Views 0 Comments Amanda Spielman, Anne Longfield, ASCL, banners, Blue Monday, caffeine, Change4Life, Children's Commissioner, Consortium for Research in Deaf Education (CRIDE), Cyberbullying, Damian Hinds, deaf children, digital literacy, gaming addiction, guided reading, happiness, healthy eating, Killian Mullan, Literacy, Nick Gibb, Ofsted, Podcast, Public Health England, snacking, Suella Fernandes, sugar, technology, Textbooks, The World Health Organisation, Toby Young, Verbal Feedback, Waitrose, Wellbeing

Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you want to beat those blue Mondays and bust some educational myths?

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CPD Teaching and Learning 

#1MinCPD: Guided Reading Questions

10th January 20188th January 2018 Hanna Beech 1962 Views 2 Comments #1minCPD, debate, English, guided reading, Harry Potter, Homework, Literacy, Modelling, pause, pose, Questioning, speaking and listening

Reading Time: 1 minute What is the pause and pose reading strategy?

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