Study Skills Explorer
50 study strategies, each with its own brand-new creature and a step-by-step guide with timers and worked examples. Flick through, try a few tonight, and build a kit of five that works for the way you learn. About the update
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Card kits for students, SATs spelling practice, games for the classroom board, teaching tools and toolkits for staff. Most need no log-in or set-up, and what you type stays on your device.
50 study strategies, each with its own brand-new creature and a step-by-step guide with timers and worked examples. Flick through, try a few tonight, and build a kit of five that works for the way you learn. About the update
Breathing, body, senses and imagination cards. The creatures guide children and young people, one slow step at a time, with a Calm Plan and a guide for grown-ups.
Three ways to practise for the KS2 SATs papers, ready to use on the board or on a laptop.
Whole-class activities to open on the board and play straight away. Click the logo in a game's top bar to come back here.
Look, move, then spell. Flip cards from the statutory word list, with dictation sentences and movement activities.
PlayThe full Year 5/6 statutory list in three tiers, with read-aloud sentences and focus words you choose.
PlayFour stories with SATs-style questions. Answer, then tap the sentence in the text that proves it.
PlayFour mysteries to solve by reading carefully. Search for clues, rule out suspects and accuse the thief.
PlayLook at the card, hold it in your head, then draw it from memory. One-, two- and three-step instructions.
PlayPlace your worms on a 7 × 7 grid, then cross off squares as coordinates are called, like Battleships.
PlayHide French landmarks on the grid and listen for the coordinates in French, with number help on screen.
PlayCall random squares for any grid game. Letters or numbers, and any size from 4 × 4 to 12 × 12.
PlayShow-and-teach tools for a topic: step-by-step guides and whole-class revision to use in the lesson. Grouped by subject.
You're given two of start, end and midpoint. Find the missing one, then reveal the answer on the grid.
OpenTen safe steps in order, with a burner that shows what should happen at each one: goggles, air hole, gas and flame.
OpenStudents pick nine answers for a 3×3 grid on mini-whiteboards, then you reveal the questions one by one.
OpenScreening, planning and teaching strategies for busy classroom staff. Needs-led and about support, never fixing. Planning aids, not diagnostic tools.
Screeners for dyslexia, maths, language, autism and ADHD, support plans, referral guides, observation and behaviour records, a strategy generator and a family tool. Assess, plan, do, review.
Open the toolkitThinking, research and writing strategies, each with how to use it and a print-ready A4 worksheet. Organisers, frameworks, discussion and evaluation tools.
Open the toolkitShort, practical CPD courses. Progress saves as you go, and there's a certificate at the end.
Start or continue a course, including STAR Behaviour Monitoring and Spotting Barriers to Learning.
Open the libraryFor employers and schools: ask us to confirm that a Crux Education CPD certificate is genuine.
Check a certificatePress F11 on the classroom computer. Press it again to leave.
Type these straight into the address bar:
Use the settings button at the top to switch theme or turn on easy-read text. Each tool remembers it on this device.