Literacy Resources

When Night Didn’t Come by Poly Bernatene is a wordless picture book which offers a considerable level of challenge to read as well as being a visual feast. The story tells of a village when the sun goes down and the panic when the moon doesn’t rise.  There are wonderful pictures of the mechanics of [...]

Fans of wordless picture books will be familiar with Jeannie Baker’s work;  Window, Where the Forest Meets the Sea and Home.  The book of hers that I would most like to use in a literacy sequence is Mirror which I think fits very well with the Yr5 literacy unit stories from other cultures. The book [...]

Working with some teachers last week, we started to explore the power of wordless picture books and how they can support children’s writing.  Here are some of the reasons that we came up with about why we should be using them: they allow children to tell their own story based upon their own understanding of [...]

We have been leading a lot of phonics work recently; training, supporting, demonstrating, working alongside and using the lesson study model of support with much more to come this term.  One of the ideas that we are very clear about in phonics teaching is that you need a small number of  games/activities which you and [...]