Inventing with Blueprints

January 31, 2010

I talked to a teacher on Wednesday who had been on Talk for Writing training and had read our thoughts about blueprints.  She wanted to know how she could start to introduce the idea of blueprints to the whole school and embed Talk for Writing training with only one staff meeting to do so.  We [...]


Shortcut by David Macaulay

January 8, 2010

I am a big fan of David Macaulay and would use him as an author and illustrator to study because he has such a range of non-fiction and fiction that I think there is something for everyone.  Macualay is obviously fascinated by the way things are constructed and how they work. Amazon.co.uk Widgets One of [...]