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.
Using Diagnostic Assessments to Identify Learning Priorities
Despite the fact that every single member of school staff has worked tirelessly to provide quality education during the pandemic, we know that learning has suffered. We know that we need to put significant energy into recovery… But where do we start?
World Book Day 2021: Building a love of books virtually
Every year, the first week of March brings World Book Day! This year, things are a little different to say the least. Although this week brought news of full school opening and the roadmap out of all this, we’re still faced with a World Book Day in lockdown.
This blog will bring you lots of resources that will enhance your World Book Day, whether it is celebrated at school or at home.
Making Writing Powerful: Writing with Purpose
Consider the last five things you have written – what were they?
Much of the teaching of writing is naturally given over to learning how to write for specific purposes. Truly great writing will only emerge when the pupils are confident, engaged writers who take pleasure in their craft. So, what can we do to support this? The answer, is to make writing powerful. Read this blog for our top tips for building purposeful writing into your whole curriculum.
The importance building of a reading rich environment
Reading is all around us. We encounter print in a huge variety of forms day to day, both at school, at home, and everywhere in-between. What does a reading rich environment look like? In order to really interrogate our reading environments, we need to consider three areas of school: classrooms, the library and the wider shared school environment.
Mind the Gap:
Think about a time when you just couldn’t think of the word you needed during a conversation. For most of us, this is a relatively rare occurrence, but for many children a lack of vocabulary puts up daily barriers that are difficult to overcome. We know there is a significant word gap which we must overcome, but why is minding that gap so important? Why do we need to prioritise vocabulary?
Reading Award Case Study
One Education are proud to support schools to develop their reading provision. This case study, written by St Matthew’s Catholic Primary School, illustrates their reading journey and showcases the fantastic work that has been put into their Gold Reading Award achievement.
How Can We Support Every Child to be a Good Reader?
Just take a minute to think about the impact reading has on your daily life. Reading permeates every aspect of our lives. Imagine if you couldn’t read or if reading was a challenge that frustrated you. What would you miss out on? What might you avoid? The positive impact of being a good reader is well known. Not only does it impact attainment but also mental health, employment, empowerment and much more.
