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How to facilitate revision in your English lessons

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Term 4 is the perfect time to consolidate all of the English concepts your students have learned throughout the year. Here are some built-in tools to help you effectively facilitate revision using English Stars:
Enrichment tasks in English Stars

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Enrichment tasks are activities designed to strengthen students’ educational experience and extend them academically. Using real-world contexts, these tasks are designed to engage students and challenge them to apply their learning in unfamiliar ways.
Catering for difference in reading comprehension

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While comprehension is an essential literacy skill, it is one that can be challenging to teach. Luckily, English Stars makes it easy – find out how.
Check out English Stars' diverse and engaging multimedia resources

English Stars

English Stars utilises a rich array of multimedia resources – from videos and audio clips to slideshows and comic strips. Let’s take a look at some of the ways English Stars helps students explore the English curriculum through its diverse…
3 ways to elevate your poetry lessons

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The fun and creative nature of poetry often makes it a hit in the classroom. It gives students new and unique ways to express themselves while they develop those all-important literacy skills.
Three tricky grammar concepts and the tools to tackle them

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Any English teacher knows that some grammar rules are simply easier to learn than others. Students show us this every day in their writing. Tricky homophones, misused apostrophes and overuse of commas are just a handful of the common mistakes…
Check out our favourite educational English Stars videos

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Videos are an engaging way to introduce, consolidate or revise a concept, and English Stars includes hundreds of them.
What do teachers love about English Stars?

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All teachers know effective English lessons demand lots of planning, sourcing of quality resources and catering for the individual needs of students – on top of the actual teaching itself.
English Stars text spotlight

English Stars

At Firefly, we believe in fostering a love of reading in all students, which is why English Stars is packed with rich, varied and engaging texts.