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How to identify and address gaps in learning so that children are helped to become confident, increasingly accurate spellers.  This blog includes a free, helpful lesson outline. 

A summary of the session with Professor Tim Rasinski, hosted by HFL Education - 17th November 2020.

Thought-provoking rationale and strategies for nurturing active readers.

Fluency is undergoing somewhat of a revival in England. It has long been the poor relation, the magnolia paint let’s say, of reading; a general stage the ‘typical’ reader will attain when s/he reaches about a quarter past seven years old.

In this short blog, Penny Slater points to some texts that may prove useful in the last few weeks leading up to this year’s SATS.

Ben Fuller explores what we know (and what we don’t yet know) about KS2 and KS4 progress measures this summer.

Despite constantly saying that there is no silver bullet out there, I know that many wonder whether it is just that they have not found it …yet. 

In this series of blogs, Penny Slater takes an in-depth look at the 2019 reading SATs paper and draws out some key points for reflection.

In this series of blogs, Penny Slater takes an in-depth look at the 2019 reading SATs paper and draws out some key points for reflection.

One of the most fundamental learning theories to be implemented within any mastery classroom is the ‘CPA’ (Concrete, Pictorial, and Abstract) approach. It was first proposed by Jerome Bruner in 1966 as a means of scaffolding learning.