Writing for an audience provides students with a purpose for writing and an incentive for rewriting and editing to a high standard. Here are some easy ideas to implement which are a little different: Create a bookmark: Poems, summaries and … Continued
This is the second of my “Back in the old days when I first started teaching” posts. As I mentioned in my previous post, Year 1 was the first year of formal learning and there were three terms each year. … Continued
Back in the ‘old days’ when I first started teaching, Year 1 was the first year of formal learning and there were three terms each year. In Year 1, students spent the first term participating in pre-reading, pre-writing and pre-maths … Continued
Why is the ‘u’ in ‘busy’ pronounced as /i/ and in ‘bury’ pronounced as /e/? It relates to the fact that how we pronounce words can be different in different dialects of English and that the pronunciation of words often … Continued
Comprehension moves from the basic recall of information through to making inferences and finally making evaluative judgements. Each of these types of comprehension have a place to play in our understanding of the text. However, many comprehension activities don’t move … Continued