Literacy Resources

A colleague recently received a wonderful pop-up book from Secret Santa, The Twelve Days of Christmas by Robert Sabauda.  This  reminded me of the time I made pop-up books with my class in design and technology lessons and had a great time with the children producing  quite sophisticated pop-ups. I wanted a pop-up book that [...]

When children start to move away from reading schemes it is very important that they find books that are at just the right level that they will enjoy.  One of the best ways of doing this is to introduce children to books in series as this means that there is a good chance that if [...]

It’s that time of year when every magazine that I open contains pages of possible presents for children, men, teenagers, grandparents etc but very rarely teachers.  Quite a few of my friends are teachers and we like to give each other something small but useful for work  at Christmas.  As I am trying to do [...]