Writing Workshop Feedback: Trinity Road Primary School
“Ian worked with a group of children who were finding writing really difficult. He was hugely inspiring to them and used creative ways to support them and produce some excellent
11/09/2018
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where stories come to life...
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
Articles
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
Articles
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
Putting books and films at the heart of learning – a resource bank
I’ve been putting this together for a few months and here it is! A list of films (taken from www.literacyshed.co.uk), the core books we use and Talk for Writing activities
27/07/2017
