Tutoring Tips for New Tutors Tutoring is a great way to earn extra money while helping others learn. Here are some tutoring tips for new tutors ready to get started in this rewarding field. You have been waiting for this moment for a long time. You have a booking! But oh heck, that means you …
In a previous post we talked about what homophone means, and how they are used in Primary Schools across England as a standard part of the National Curriculum. Now let us turn to another baffling piece of terminology that forms a key part of most Reading and Writing lessons: Common Exception Words. What are common …
Homophones One of the hardest parts of teaching English, or any language with a written element, is terminology. I’ll never forget how my mum came home from teaching adults French one night saying that her students couldn’t understand silent “e”s and “s”s on French words, so she had written hav on the board. Then asked …
4 of the best five-minute filler games It doesn’t matter what time of year you read this, there is always five minutes to fill in a day. It might be that assembly or collective worship ran late and you can’t fit that final activity into your perfectly planned lesson, or even worse – it finishes …
Do you teach poetry to 5-7 year olds? and a question that I am often asked by colleagues and peers: How to teach poetry in KS1? One of the hardest writing units to cover with younger kids (and older kids in my opinion) is the writing of poetry. With other forms of writing, they can …