10th Sep 2025
The Importance of The Foundation Stage in Developing Literacy Skills
The Foundation Stage builds early literacy, fostering confidence, creativity, and a lifelong love of reading and writing through rich, playful learning.
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6th Sep 2025
The Oracy Crisis: How Mighty Writer Answers the Call of the 'We Need to Talk' Report
In March 2024, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) released its landmark report, "We need to talk: The case for oracy in the classroom". This vital document highlights a growing crisis in children's spoken language skills—an "oracy gap" that has widened post-pandemic and is profoundly impacting educational attainment, social mobility, and emotional wellbeing.
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1st Sep 2025
Supporting All Learners: Early Identification and Assessment in EYFS
Every child’s learning journey is unique, shaped by early experiences that lay the foundation for future literacy. Their initial encounters with learning create a distinctive path that influences how they absorb knowledge. Recognising these early differences allows teachers to celebrate and support individual learning needs.
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25th Aug 2025
Engaging Tactile Activities to Boost Vocabulary and Speaking Skills
Vocabulary and speaking skills are the fundamental building blocks for literacy, enabling Early Years and KS1 learners to communicate effectively from an early age.
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22nd Aug 2025
Phonics Hopscotch: Outdoor Literacy Lesson Plan
This lesson is designed to combine the benefits of outdoor activity with engaging phonics practice.
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15th Aug 2025
The Magic of Literacy: More Than Just Reading and Writing
Literacy is much more than simply reading and writing; it is a multidimensional skill that forms the foundation for learning.
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12th Aug 2025
Under the Sea Phonics Adventure: Dive into Blends, Diagraphs, and Initial Sounds
Dive into an underwater adventure that brings phonics to life! Engage your pupils with an under the sea-themed hunt designed for year one.
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8th Aug 2025
3 Sentence Building Games for KS1 Literacy
This blog explores interactive sentence-building games that transform the way primary pupils engage with literacy.
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5th Aug 2025
Splash into summer: KS1 literacy lesson plan
A fun, summer beach-themed lesson plan for your KS1 classes!
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1st Aug 2025
Literacy Lesson Plan: Water Word Play in the Tuff Tray
This lesson aims to offer young primary school pupils a fun and interactive approach to literacy by engaging them in water play while they develop their phonics and word-building skills.
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29th Jul 2025
Phonics Progression: Laying a Strong Literacy Foundation from Reception to Year Two
A smooth phonics progression is crucial in laying the foundations for effective literacy development. Read more to discover the importance of phonics & steps for progression.
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30th Jun 2025
Prompting Powers: Boosting KS1 Spoken Language Through Interactive Reading
Interactive reading has become an essential element in KS1 classrooms, discover how prompting during interactive reading can boost spoken language in KS1.
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