This audio screencast (presentation with voiceover) focuses on the importance of developing vocabulary knowledge: the why, what, how, how often of vocabulary learning. It is research and practice informed and focuses on key principles: frequency, mixed word class, spaced re-visiting.

PowerPoint presentation providing an introduction to the research and pedagogical rationale for how to approach the teaching of grammar in the secondary classroom in England.

PowerPoint presentation providing an introduction to the research and pedagogical rationale for methods of vocabulary teaching.

Six sets of PowerPoint slides exploring reasons for learning languages, focusing primarily on intrinsic motivations.

Phonics: Half-Day CPD slides for the 1st CPD session in the series of four for Year 1. The four themes are: Phonics, Vocabulary, Grammar and Meaningful practice.

The activities listed here are ways to develop SSC knowledge, following their initial presentation and practice within source and cluster words, and preceding any assessment activity.

Students categorise a set of words (including a few unfamiliar words) according to SSC. They then create their own sentences using the words.

This is a TRG (Teacher Research Group) CPD session focused on the importance of developing vocabulary knowledge; the why, what, how, how often of vocabulary learning.

This sequence of activities builds towards the re-telling in own words of a story contrasting habitual and completed events in the past, and using imperfect and passé composé tenses.

These documents organise words that are in the 2000 most frequently used, but which do not appear on the AQA Spanish core vocabulary list.