Literacy Resources

One of the activities that we ask teachers to do on our Talk for Writing training is to bring along a teaching sequence that has talk for writing strategies included in it and share with others.  This has been a really valuable activity and has resulted in many requests for a facility to share sequences [...]

If  ever we needed a reminder of one of our favourite mantra’s when teaching children to write this is it.  Carol Ann Duffy has written a wonderful poem, Achilles, about Beckham’s injury  published in the Mirror .  What a glorious melting pot of cultures. Many children will know the stories of Troy and possibly Achilles [...]

If you don’t know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don’t know the stories you may be lost in life. Siberian Elder in StoryWorld by John and Caitlin Matthews I have been experimenting with inventing sessions for two terms now.  Inventing is where children become text-tellers, story tellers and [...]

As part of a project looking at progression in animation I have been talking to teachers and children about animation and  reflecting on what I have learnt so far.  It will be interesting to see how this changes as we move towards the end of the year and the project but here it is at [...]