Theme: Language and literacy

• Research Summary

Handwriting: Getting ready to write

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Spoken and written narratives

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Spelling – using word study techniques

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The use of writing frames and planning tools to improve structure and increase depth in writing

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Oracy-Dialogics in primary school

• Perspective Article

Using Drama for Learning – how and why it works

• Original Research

Dialogic teaching: Using wordless texts to develop children’s cultural literacy learning

• Original Research

The Plymouth Oracy Project: Its impact on non-academic measures of pupil success

• Original Research

Digital Methods for the English Classroom

• Original Research

Creative collaboration: Teachers and writers working together

• Original Research

Creative writing through the arts in primary schools

• Original Research

2-Curious: The potential of performance-based practice in dialogue with early years practice

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Great teaching techniques: Deliberate vocabulary development

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Great teaching techniques: Whole-class reading

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Great teaching techniques: A culture of speech

• Perspective Article

Head, heart and hands: Cognitive science casts new light on some old words of wisdom

• Perspective Article

What happened to curriculum in the early years?

• Original Research

Embodied meaning making: The use of gesture in the responses of year 1 children to multimodal artefacts

• Teacher Reflection

A reflection on a project to promote high engagement in the Early Years curriculum

• Original Research

Addressing the vocabulary gap using the Pattern Grammar approach