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Celebrate World Book Day: Creative and Fun Ideas to Ignite a Love for Reading

World Book Day Ideas 2024: Create a Love of Reading A literary adventure of epic proportions! World Book Day, the international celebration of books and reading, is fast approaching. In honour of this special occasion, we’ve curated a list of creative and fun ways to express your love for reading with your class, and instil …

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Improving Literacy In Key Stage 1: Skills and Processes

What Does the Evidence Say About Improving Literacy in KS1? Literacy encompasses not only the ability to read and write but also a range of intricate skills such as word-level competencies like spelling and word-reading, as well as text-level abilities like reading comprehension and writing composition. There are a number of ways to improve literacy …

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Three Transport Books for Children 2-4

These three transport-themed books are firm favourites in our household. Vehicles and transport are always popular themes from Early Years to Journey planning in secondary school. Have a look at my transport-themed teaching resources. These have been chosen as they passed the test of holding the attention of our younger children. They are good quality …

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Sensory Templates For Early Literacy

The influence for these early literacy sensory templates is the book Find Colours by Tamara Shopsin and Jason Fulford. It features die-cut pages which you “colour” yourself by holding them over different surfaces that become the colours. Early Literacy Activities One of the challenging elements of special education is finding or creating motivating and engaging …

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A-Z of world book day ideas – That aren’t dressing up!

World Book Day Teaching Activities As a parent, I am starting to dread the yearly costume hunt that World Book Day has become. This year in Sainsbury’s the dressing-up display was 10 meters followed by two small shelves of books. However, I do think that World Book Day has the potential to inspire creativity and …

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Essential Education Books for Inclusive Teachers: Behaviour.

These books are only those I have read and can recommend. They all follow an inclusive and positive support ethos. They all also focus on the only part of behaviour support we can control – ourselves. If your school has a zero tolerance behaviour policy read these and make it your mission to get that rewritten.I will get around to doing a second post but I need to get reading first!

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