The Effectiveness of Teachers' Use of Non-literal Language in the Classroom
Aim: To raise teachers awareness of their use of non-literal language such as simile, metaphor and idiom, and to develop their ability to ensure pupils understanding of it.
The Evidence People
Key stage 1
Using ICT to support the teaching of 'Place' in Geography
Aim: To use a year's teaching of Geography for a Year 1 cohort to seek opportunities to employ ICT to support learning.
The enquiring school: Using action research to enhance Key Stage 1 pupils' speaking and listening
Aim: This project was essentially about what it is that supports a school to become research-engaged. There were two dimensions to this investigation:
(i) The aim of the specific research activity at school level was:
To investigate the impact of rhyme and rhythm on the development of speaking and listening skills in Key Stage 1
(ii) Beyond the specific research at school level, the overarching aim was:
To investigate the features of research engagement in the school which were significant in supporting and enabling the research activity.
Effectively Teaching Infants Mental Arithmetic
Aim: To examine the problems children encounter in arithmetic and to decide whether a programme of activities using visual images developed by Catherine Stern in the 1940s could be used by teachers to improve pupils' mental arithmetic.
An inclusive multi-sensory approach to teaching arithmetic
Aim: The focus of this teacher-led action research was to construct a programme of multi-sensory teaching activities to develop mental arithmetic capability in children from Nursery through KS1.