An education blog from Aidan Severs Consulting (www.aidansevers.com)
Monday 28 May 2018
Why Primary Teachers Need To Know About Metacognition
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Sir Kevan Collins introduces the EEF’s latest guidance report on metacognition and self-regulated learning with these words: ‘…with a la...
Monday 21 May 2018
Guest Post: Who Gets to Tell the Story? Empathy vs Exploitation by Victoria Williamson
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In today's guest blog post, and as part of her blog tour, Victoria Williamson, author of 'The Fox Girl and The White Gazelle' ...
Sunday 20 May 2018
Competition! Win A Signed Set of Chris Riddell's Ottoline Books And A Signed Print!
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After discovering it on our bookshelves, my two eldest daughters devoured 'Ottoline Goes To Sea' - my 6-year-old read it in one day...
Wednesday 16 May 2018
Book Review: 'The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle' by Victoria Williamson
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'The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle' deserves to be one of 2018's most lauded books. Tackling racism, discrimination and bullyin...
Monday 14 May 2018
Teaching Reading Comprehension: Modelling and Practice (Example Lessons)
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I’ve been thinking, reading and writing a lot lately about how we teach reading strategies and skills in primary schools. I won’t bore you w...
Monday 30 April 2018
Reading Roles PLUS: Teaching Metacognitive Reading Comprehension Strategies
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Reading Roles PLUS is a resource designed to aid children’s metacognition when reading. Metacognition can be defined simply as ‘thinking ...
Thursday 26 April 2018
Guest Post: Vasilisa the Beautiful (on ambiguous villains) by Sophie Anderson
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In which Sophie Anderson, author of the wonderful 'The House With Chicken Legs' ( read my review here ), writes about how in some s...
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