'Small is beautiful' - blog post on simplifying the literacy curriculum to necessities

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'Small is beautiful' - blog post on simplifying the literacy curriculum to necessities

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Teacher/blogger Solomon Kingsnorth writes about reducing the primary curriculum to focus on reading, writing and maths:

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Small is Beautiful: Part Two

This is part two of my ‘Small is Beautiful’ series on the need to radically reduce the primary curriculum to ensure fluency in the core areas of reading, writing and maths.

In part one, I re-wrote the maths curriculum. It can be found here (along with a 60-second summary of the blog), but you don’t need to read it before reading part two.

Here’s a 60-second summary of this post (part two), for those in a hurry:
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