Literacy Resources

I have recently become much more aware of the vast number of resources on YouTube that can be used in a primary classroom. YouTube is blocked from the majority of schools meaning that downloading is the only answer if you want to use something from the site. My latest finds are Snap and Storytime.   Snap [...]

I had forgotten, and then rediscovered photopeach!  Since I last visited photopeach has added the facility to include a quiz. Working Walls on PhotoPeach Children under 13 must have the registration form completed by a parent/guardian.  There are a myriad of uses for teachers.  What do you do with all those photos taken during trips [...]

We talk a lot about working walls and model them on our talk for writing training so it is fantastic to get some feedback from teachers about what they are doing in their classrooms. A working wall is a temporary display for any or all curriculum areas that shows the build up or progress towards [...]

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I am a big fan of found poetry and have suggested it as an activity several times on this blog.  On Wednesday I read Andrew Motion‘s recent found poem An Equal Voice created from a variety of sources. Found poetry allows us to magpie (I know it’s not really a verb!) words and phrases from [...]

Yesterday I worked with a group of teachers thinking about developing children’s inference skills.  As we talked about the range of strategies that we needed to offer in our classrooms, I was reminded once again of the power of synonyms in reading.  I quite often see synonyms being taught for writing purposes, e.g. other words for ‘said’ [...]