Teaching Vocabulary

Teaching Vocabulary

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There would be little disagreement on the importance of broadening and deepening the vocabulary of young people. In the preface to Teaching effective vocabulary , the 2008 Chief Adviser on School Standards in the UK, Sue Hackman, compares having a good vocabulary to ‘an artist’s palette of colours’. Vocabulary is more than a list of words, and … Read more

What I Learned From Six Year Olds & A Rainforest

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The 1998 primary arts publication The 1998 primary arts publication I worked on, which brought together a number of cross-curricular arts project for primary schools, is pictured on the right. As the resource was commissioned by five arts education associations, it was my role as chair of the joint committee to oversee the collection of … Read more