The Secret To Great Guided Reading – Cloze Activities
Exploring texts with a small group is time well spent, but how do you make sure the rest of the class isn’t losing out? Read the full article here!
11/09/2018
Articles
How Drama Helps Primary Children Understand Books and Stories
Drama is far more than just hot-seating. With the right activities, we can help children understand texts in more detail than ever before… Read the full article here!
09/09/2018
Grandad’s Island: Exploring new worlds and mobilising memory
“To read the artist’s picture is to mobilise our memories and our experience of the visible world and to test his image through tentative projections…It is not the ‘innocent eye’,
16/05/2018
An interview with Simon James Green, author of ‘Noah Can’t Even’ and ‘Noah Could Never’
Simon James Green is the author of ‘Noah Can’t Even’(Scholastic Fiction) and the upcoming ‘Noah Could Never’. Here he talks about what’s in store for Noah and his boyfriend Harry,
17/04/2018
I Am What I Am: My Reading Journey
Jon Biddle’s work on ‘Reading Rivers’ on the Research Rich Pedagogies website run by @OpenUni_RfP and AF Harrold’s moving look back at the books which have shaped his life, inspired
03/03/2018
Rainbow Hues
Rainbow Hues By Ian Eagleton First of all, let me say, I am not professing to be a writer or poet at all! However, I took some time off over
06/01/2018
The Tale of Bubbles the Missing Hamster: a celebration of diary writing
Dear Diary…. A few days before our wedding in August, I stumbled across my old diaries whilst desperately (and rather frantically) searching for my Granddad’s cuff links. In a
29/10/2017
Ariadna and the Hellish Helixous: Modelling a Greek Myth to Year 4
This is an example of a Greek myth I constructed with my Year 4 class during our work on myths and monsters. We used ideas from @GalwayMr and his excellent
28/07/2017
Helping children understand the impact of their writing and importance of their words
Master The New English Curriculum And Get Children To Understand The Impact Of Their Writing Ian Eagleton saw big improvements when he helped children to take control of their writing
11/06/2017
Creating a community of readers – some practical ideas
Creating a community of readers: some practical ideas by Ian Eagleton When I read A.F Harrold’s article in TeachPrimary entitled ‘I met books and I met books and I met
18/05/2017
The joys and benefits of reading aloud to your class
For many years I have tried to read to my class and never quite got it right, which seems like an odd thing to say. Surely, you just sit or
15/05/2017
These Testing Times
These Testing Times… An article I wrote for TeachPrimary, discussing how to effectively prepare children for this year’s Reading SATs paper. http://www.teachwire.net/news/reading-isnt-about-answering-questions-taking-tests-its-about-escaping
14/02/2017
