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With new research linking fine motor skills and language ability, perhaps some old-fashioned learning activities should make a comeback, writes Megan Dixon

Measuring writing development can be a tricky process, writes Megan Dixon, but a new systematic review proposes an easy and effective approach

What can teachers do to help pupils learn words that are often misspelt? Megan Dixon rounds up some research-backed strategies for teaching spelling

The idea that repeated testing improves performance is well-established, but there’s a gap between effects in the lab and how an approach works in the classroom, says Megan Dixon

Which teaching approaches spur students to write and which put them off? Research offers some clues, says Megan Dixon

Online apps for learning should draw on the ‘four pillars of the science of learning’, finds Megan Dixon