World Book Day Ideas for Schools
World Book Day is coming up and this year’s theme is “You Are A Reader.” We hope you can make reading accessible and exciting for all of your pupils with our wide variety of World Book Day ideas.
You Are a Champion: Planning and Resources
One Education’s planning and resources aim to give educators a starting point in suggesting ways Marcus Rashford’s You Are a Champion can be used to develop children’s confidence, build resilience and support in striving to be the best version of themselves.
Building Great Readers: The Importance of Reading at Secondary
Reading is crucial. Every child and young person must leave school able to read proficiently, for both pleasure and purpose. However, we have a long way to go for this to happen.
Writing Skills: Developing Spelling
Laura Lodge shares her expertise on building progression in spelling. With an example lesson.
Writing Skills: Grammar in Context
During this training session we discuss building progression in grammar. With an example lesson.
Giving reading the attention it deserves, every day!
On Sunday 23rd January, we’re all encouraged to celebrate reading on National Reading Day.
The Reading Framework: Implications for Leadership and Practice
Read ahead to discover our top ten takeaways from the new Reading Framework released by the Department for Education.
Looking to the Future: How can we build back better?
The pandemic has shone a light on our collective strengths and weaknesses and, as a profession, we need to capitalise on the lessons we’ve learned whilst looking to the future. Read this blog for more about the importance of securing foundational learning, the impact of diagnostic assessment and the widening of professional development opportunities.
Teaching Writing Effectively: Modelled Writing
Teaching writing is complex, and teaching it effectively is challenging. To teach writing well, we have to consider every aspect of the writing experience and crucially, model how to write. Read this blog to understand what effective modelled writing should look like.
Teaching Reading Skills and Strategies: Inference
Reading is complex. As adults, we often forget what it means to read as it has become automatic to many of us. However, for children, who are not yet automatic readers, we must consider how best to teach them the skills and strategies of being a fluent reader. Our previous blog in this series focused on the teaching of retrieval, but the reading skill that children often find most challenging after this is inference.
