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How talking with your child can improve their literacy

How to help your child put their literacy knowledge into action

Once you are confident you can ensure your child learns effectively on Bedrock , it’s important to help them put their learning into practice across the curriculum and beyond - we've collated some helpful tips to help you do this.

How to ensure your child learns effectively on Bedrock

Whether your child uses Bedrock at school, home, or both, it brings many benefits: Bedrock is statistically proven to boost vocabulary and literacy – skills that bring benefits across the school curriculum and beyond .

Improving literacy: 18 ways to make reading fun

Literacy is the ability to read, listen to, understand and communicate about information.

Strategies for teaching fiction: how can your students benefit?

"There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth." - Doris Lessing

Teaching strategies for improving literacy

To engage with a text, learners need to understand at least 95% of the words.

8 quick tips to encourage good homework habits

Cultural literacy: the importance of a knowledge-rich curriculum

Cultural literacy – knowledge of histories, traditions, literature, art and so on – is a significant part of the UK National Curriculum. Here, we look at its benefits and how to teach it.

How parents can support your school's literacy strategy

It goes without saying that a good whole-school literacy strategy requires support from staff across the school. But successful implementations also engage another key stakeholder: parents.

Disciplinary literacy: tips from literacy experts

"Literacy is not an initiative. It needs to be a living breathing entity in every classroom and every subject." - Charlotte Evans, Harris Federation

Embedding a whole-school literacy strategy: tips from literacy experts

School leaders share best practice for engaging staff and students.

Diagnostic tools: how they measure and improve literacy

Diagnostic tools can help you to assess learners’ current knowledge in a particular subject area, such as literacy. Here, we look at: when to measure literacy with a diagnostic tool what insights diagnostic assessments can provide a selection of diagnostic tools that measure literacy what to do with the information in a diagnostic report