For many years I've been supporting teachers to teach editing and proofreading using the ARMS and CUPS aide memoire as a systematic approach to editing and proofreading. It’s an incredibly simple approach to evaluating, improving and redrafting and one that the teachers I work with have embraced enthusiastically.

Assessing writing can be complicated and time consuming. In this article we take a look at a few ways to simplify the process and introduce you to the Primary English Writing Assessment Grids.

On the off-chance that you’re stumped for a writing activity to squeeze into the window between the school carol service and the staff buffet, we’ve collated a few quick and easy Christmas themed writing opportunities.

Once upon an ordinary a day an ordinary teacher was looking for an ordinary book to read with her ordinary children during their ordinary guided reading lesson, when..she stumbled across a quite extraordinary book indeed: Once Upon an Ordinary School Day by Colin McNaughton and Satoshi Kitamura.