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Infused with cognitive science research and evidence-informed practice, it offers schools the architecture for excellence; helping remove the risk of making assumptions. \u003cbr\u003ePupil Book Study is a guide for schools that offers 7 specific and fully exemplified areas to focus quality assurance systems. The keystone between teaching, learning and the curriculum, Pupil Book Study offers schools the tools to explain why things are as they are and presents solutions to the areas that limit or hinder progress. \u003cbr\u003eSchools report that Pupil Book Study has been some of the most powerful and impactful work they have ever undertaken, resulting in positive change. 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Building on the global success of the original Pupil Book Study frameworks, this publication will explore the complex nuances of how to get children writing effectively.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting is widely acknowledged as one of the most cognitively demanding aspects of the curriculum and leaders have sought for many years to balance the competing demands the subject. Pupil Book Study: Writing guides teachers and leaders to examine each facet of the writing process through a research-informed lens to help them understand how well their provision is serving their children.\u003cbr\u003eThis approach allows us valuable insights into the lived experience of our curricula models, shining a light on how well learning endures. 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Building on the global success of the original Pupil Book Study frameworks, this guide translates these principles into practice to support leaders and teachers to evaluate their reading curriculum.\u003cbr\u003eThe catch-all term ‘reading’ covers a wide-spanning aspect of schools’ provision, which is acknowledged to be central to pupils’ long-term success and well-being. It is vital that we have robust and meaningful mechanisms in schools to help us understand which aspects of this are working well and what might need further development. This requires us to examine each aspect of our reading provision in turn, through a lens which acknowledges the disciplinary differences between how we might approach teaching different elements of the reading curriculum. 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