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Day 25 Learning at Home with The Reading Realm: Science Quiz
Join us for our science-themed quiz, which also tests your knowledge of collective nouns!
04/06/2020
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Day 24 Learning at Home with The Reading Realm: Diversity in Children’s Publishing
Today we explored CLPE’s ‘Reflecting Realities’ report and the importance of books being ‘mirrors, windows and doors’. We looked at independent publishers, including Knights Of, Book Island, Lantana and Tiny
02/06/2020
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Stuck Inside: A book about the UK Lockdown
Kat and Dan Allman are a married couple from Reading with two children aged 2.5 years and 6 months. Neither of them have ever written a book before – Kat
29/05/2020
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Hideous Beauty: An interview with William Hussey
Hideous Beauty: A YA love story steeped in dark secrets… Dylan is forced to come out after his secret relationship with Ellis is exposed on social media, but to his
28/05/2020
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Day 23 Learning at Home with The Reading Realm
Thank you for joining us today (21.5.20) over on The Reading Realm Facebook Page for our fun children’s quiz! We are having the week off next week as it’s half
21/05/2020
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Mrs Noah’s Garden: An interview with James Mayhew
Mrs Noah’s Garden, which is published by Otter-Barry Books, is published today! We’re thrilled to have illustrator James Mayhew join us in #TheRealm to discuss working with author Jackie Morris
21/05/2020
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Day 22 Learning at Home with The Reading Realm: Poetry with Coral Rumble
We had a lovely lesson today inspired by a poem from Coral Rumble. Coral’s new book, which is out in August 2020, can be pre-ordered here! Today we explored: Putting
19/05/2020
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Day 20 Learning at Home with The Reading Realm: Poetry with Sue Hardy-Dawson
Today we explored a poem called ‘Six Kinds of Silence’ by Sue Hardy-Dawson and then wrote our own version – thank you for your excellent ideas! Remember you can email
12/05/2020
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Returning to Secondary School
A bleary-eyed, hazily-written-at-7am blog post about my experiences at an all boys’ secondary school in the 90s. Please just be aware the blog talks about bullying, mental health, anxiety and
10/05/2020
