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The Ladybird Readers series offers a large range of fun and engaging titles. Using reward charts alongside this series can help foster a reader’s sense of accomplishment and confidence. Reward charts can be tailored to individual learners and used in the classroom or at home. It is important to consider the needs of each learner

World Environment Day is a fantastic opportunity to devote time and effort to important environmental issues. Celebrate with your young English language leaners using activities from Ladybird Readers BBC Earth books.

One of the most effective ways to encourage reading is by reading together. A book club for younger readers is simply an extension of the activity of reading at home with a parent. Invite others to join in: school friends, grandparents, aunts and uncles or neighbours. A reading club is an ideal way to: •

Outdoor reading activities open up a range of tactile and kinaesthetic learning opportunities. We asked educational consultant Dani Mundy for some activity inspiration to help us get active while learning to read. Time to pack a bag, get your shoes on and show your young learners that books are so much more than just a

There are lots of benefits to reading aloud with young learners. In this blog post, educational consultant Dani Mundy suggests some simple ways that you can use reading aloud techniques at home, whether you are homeschooling or reading for pleasure. Reading aloud brings a book to life and takes the frustration out of decoding unknown

Confidence, or lack of it, governs every action we take during our lives. Our thinking, decision-making, relationships with those we meet and attitudes towards the tasks we undertake, are all governed by our confidence. We, the parents and the teachers are best placed to create the conditions for building children’s confidence. This is tosupport children

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Discover how to use different sections of these fascinating books in some Do You Know? activities. These are great for home learning with no planning required.

arents are the child’s first teachers. Early teaching at home may seem like a daunting prospect but remember, no-one knows your child better than you do. You spend more time with him/her than anyone else does.

The Do You Know? series is a new set of non-fiction EAL (English as an additional language) graded readers based around STEM topics. In this blog post, we will provide some tips and advice for using this new series at home.