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Resource Bank Christmas activities and articles
Check out our selection of great Christmas resources on the Scholastic Resource Bank.
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Julia Donaldson Resource Bank series
Check out our new range of activity packs on Scholastic Resource Bank, based on popular Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler books.
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Read our Times Tables resources review
Read the Times Tables review from leading educational magazine, Teach Primary
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The new times tables check is coming!
Sharpen your skills for the new 2020 multiplication tables check and try our free online practice test.
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Poetry for a Change
National Poetry Day will take place on 4th October – make sure the date is marked on your calendar!
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IELTS Reading – Tips and common mistakes to avoid
English Language Teacher Martin Wilson explains how you can best help your students tackle the IELTS Reading task.
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Our top rated resources from Scholastic Resource Bank
Discover some of our best reviewed teaching resources and find out how they can save you time and inspire your classes.
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Current state of ELT in UK
English Language Teacher Martin Wilson looks at how various external forces have impacted on the state of ELT in the UK.
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Stories and anecdotes from the ELT Classroom
English Language Teacher Martin Wilson tells us funny stories that the quirks of the English language have caused in his classroom.
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ELT Readers – Festive Favourites
Our ELT Readers are a series of graded readers for English learners. Featuring best-loved stories and characters, they are a great way to inspire your students.
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IELTS Listening – Tips and common mistakes to avoid
English Language Teacher Martin Wilson gives advice on helping students to tackle the IELTS Listening task.
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Poetry and Performance with Paul Cookson
Author and poet Paul Cookson went on tour to Northern Irish schools, performing his poetry and encouraging children to get into reading, writing and performing themselves!
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European Day of Languages Competition
For European Day of Languages we asked you how you inspired your students to learn languages and here’s what you had to say!
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Tips on how to help students cope with stress during exams
English Language Teacher Martin Wilson gives advice on helping students to cope with stress as they prepare for their IELTS exams.
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Best-loved ELT Readers
Our ELT Readers are a series of graded readers for English learners. Featuring best-loved stories and characters, they are a great way to inspire your students.
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IELTS Writing Task 2 – Tips and common mistakes to avoid
In his latest post, Martin Wilson gives advice on the second IELTS writing task and offers tips on how to answer the essay question to allow candidates to obtain the highest possible grade.
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IELTS Writing Task 1 – Tips and common mistakes to avoid
In his latest post, Martin Wilson gives advice on the first IELTS writing task, offering tips to avoid some of the most common pitfalls that prevent candidates from obtaining the highest possible grade.
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ELT Reader of the Month – Smurfs: The Lost Village
Our ELT Readers are a series of graded readers for young English learners. This month, the spotlight is on Smurfs: The Lost Village, a Level 3 ELT Reader based on the latest film in the much-loved Smurfs series.
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Make life easier with Language Lab
Looking for ways to make your language teaching easier? Take a look at our top five reasons to start using Language Lab.
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The Education Insider: Another year older
In her latest post for us, education expert Jodie Lopez shares her thoughts at the end of another school year.
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IELTS Exam Speaking Section – Common Mistakes
Experienced English Language teacher Martin Wilson discusses the common mistakes made by students when preparing for the IELTS English speaking exam.
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The Education Insider: Assessment for non-core subjects
In her latest post for us, education expert Jodie Lopez shares some brilliant ideas for assessing non-core subjects, such as Art and Languages.
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Tricks and tips to ensure an engaging lesson
In Martin Wilson’s latest blog, find out how to keep your students engaged using the ELT expert’s top tips.
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ELT Reader of the Month – Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie
Our ELT Readers are a series of graded readers for young English learners. This month, the spotlight is on Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie, a Level 1 ELT Reader based on the classic Peanuts series.
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Make the most out of PM
PM is the largest and most finely levelled reading programme in the UK, with a pedagogically sound, proven approach to making every child a successful, balanced reader. To help you to make the best use of PM resources, we…
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Top 5 dos and don’ts for an English Language Teacher
In his second post for us, experienced English language teacher Martin Wilson shares best practice for fellow ELT professionals – from adapting lesson plans to teaching with a smile.
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Read & Respond: Books You’ll Love to Teach
Read & Respond is one of our best-loved teaching resources. For a limited time, you can buy 3 Read & Respond resources for the price of 2 using the discount code READ17 at the checkout.
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Our top picks for teaching children English
Our Popcorn ELT Readers are a series of low-level, graded readers aimed at students in the early stages of learning English. We believe that learning English should be fun, so every Reader is based on a popular film, TV…
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Our top Modern Foreign Language resources: February
The Mary Glasgow Magazines resource bank is home to over 14,000 resources in French, Spanish, German and English. Every magazine subscription comes with free, unlimited downloads from the resource bank for a whole year –...
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Who was Mary Glasgow?
You may know Mary Glasgow Magazines as a range of fun language-learning magazines for teenagers, but what about the face behind the famous name?
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Teachers call for greater Department for Education commitment to languages in schools – new Scholastic survey
London, 29th September 2016 – Teachers are calling for the Department for Education to place more importance on modern foreign languages (MFL), according to new research published by Mary Glasgow Magazines, part of…
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Get ready for our May Book Club!
It’s nearly time for the start of a new Book Club, and we’ve got a cracking one coming up for you in May – for a sneak peek, check out five of our top picks below and read on to find out what running a Book Club can do for…
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The short guide to the new education reforms
This week’s budget revealed plans for major reforms to education in England over the next five years – read on for a short summary of the main points you need to know, and how they could affect your child.
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Happy World Poetry Day! Getting children engaged
World Poetry Day is a day for celebrating the fantastic poets writing today, and for promoting poetry to a new generation. With that in mind, we’ve come up with five ways you can get children engaged with poems – read on…
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Everything you need to know about the new National Curriculum tests
National Tests – also known as SATs tests – are changing; and we’re on hand to make sure you’re up-to-date with all the information you need to know, and have access to the best resources to help your child succeed in the…
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How to vote in the Lollies
Voting for the Laugh Out Loud Awards is now open, and we want to get as many schools involved as possible! We’ve come up with a short guide to voting in the Lollies – read on to find out more.
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Half-term inspiration and rainy day activities
It’s nearly time for half term! The coldest, drizzliest part of the school year is almost over, and we’ve got a week to recuperate without the daily demands of the school run.
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The Laugh Out Loud Awards shortlist has been announced!
After months of deliberation by our esteemed judges, we’re delighted to announce the shortlist for the inaugural Laugh out Loud Awards (“The Lollies”)!
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Introducing the Lollies judges!
Michael Rosen, children’s novelist, poet and former Children’s Laureate, announced the Shortlist for the inaugural Laugh out Loud Awards (“The Lollies”) today – a set of awards created to celebrate the funniest books in…
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Write a book for World Book Day
Turn your pupils into published authors with We Are Writers this World Book Day!
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Run a Book Club this World Book Day
Our special World Book Day catalogues are packed with a wide range of new and best-selling books.
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Celebrate with a Book Fair for World Book Day
Hundreds of schools around the UK will be celebrating World Book Day 2016 with a Scholastic Book Fair!
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Win a World Book Day book pack!
We Are Writers is offering the chance to win an exclusive pack of books by World Book Day authors such as Roald Dahl and Cerrie Burnell!
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2016 – books to read
27th January marks Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), and we’ve selected some books that share both the history of, and the human stories from, World War Two and the Holocaust.
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The January Book Club is now online!
Our January Sale Book Club is now open, and for this half-term only we’ll be running a purely online Book Club!