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
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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
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
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
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
Rainbow Hues
Rainbow Hues By Ian Eagleton First of all, let me say, I am not professing to be a writer or
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
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
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
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
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
These Testing Times
These Testing Times… An article I wrote for TeachPrimary, discussing how to effectively prepare children for this year’s Reading SATs