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The art of story telling I came across this info graphic on twitter and have shared it with all my followers and the feedback has been immense. I always love starting a lesson or the day with a story of some sort, fiction or non fiction. It is very useful to try and understand what [...]
Common Grammar Mistakes As an educator good grammar is paramount! The irony is most teachers, including me, will sometimes overlook this fundamental concept. It is worth noting that it should be the responsibility of teachers of all subjects to promote good grammar in their lessons and not just the role of your English faculties. I [...]
Pun Definition A Pun is “a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word” or “the fact that there are words which sound a like but have several meanings”. Funny Puns Everyone likes a funny pun, so here is calling all English teachers to come and judge the best from this set of bad [...]
Guestblogger: @EngagingEyes Are you worried about how your child or pupil’s will do in the SATs reading test on Monday? Are you worried they won’t read it carefully, or won’t finish on time? SATs is the only formal way we test reading at the end of primary, yet it only tests reading comprehension, not reading age [...]
Guest Blogger: Chris Dunn @ShrekTheTeacher Tiny Bob’s Adventurous Counting has been written creatively to support maths in Early Years and Key Stage 1. It’s a very interactive book on Apple’s iBooks store, and can be used on any iPad or Mac computer… Here’s the book blurb… First and foremost, this book is a [...]
English is such an amazing language to learn but arguably one of the most difficult to get your head around. Below are the top 5 reasons why English is so much fun to learn. Please note that the title of the post is supposed to be a little ironic, so ease off the complaints in [...]
English is spoken in many countries around the world and remains one of the most popular language to learn. Or does it? From the examples below that I am not taking credit for shows clearly that learning English is not the the most straight forward language to follow. What are your views? Leave your comments [...]
Hello Magical Maths users. Do you ever feel that your students’ revision methods are not enough? Do you feel that what they are doing can only themyou so far? If so, then worry no more because the brains at Revision Universe have spent days with physcological experts to create a quiz which determines the most [...]
Why spell checkers are a complete waste of time! Brilliant! This is a great poem showing how as learners we can get to dependent on spell checkers.
Have you ever wondered why learning English speaking is difficult but yet pupils in UK school never complain about the difficult English words that they need to remember. Yet when it comes to learning a new language many students will complain and struggle. Below is Twenty One reasons why English is hard to learn and is [...]
Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image, extending the meaning of literacy, which commonly signifies interpretation of a written or printed text. Visual literacy is based on the idea that pictures can be “read” and that meaning can be communicated through a [...]
