Literacy Resources

We have been recommending Scooby Doo for some time in our texts that teach lists where adventure or mystery are taught.  The cartoon clearly follows an overcoming the monster archetype and the characters are stock characters.  They don’t change or develop, always playing the same role.  These elements are what make it an excellent text [...]

I talked to a group of boys today about writing and how they felt about it.  Their responses were perceptive and showed a way forward for those of us working with them. What do you like to write about? This brought up the usual things such as aliens, the future, dragons and comic heroes.  When [...]

We launched our boys writing project today.  It was a good morning where we explored some of the ideas that might be investigated in the classroom. We are using the lesson study model of CPD for this project.  I first read about lessons study in a wonderful book, The Teaching Gap by James Stigler and [...]

I recently read English at the Crossroads, OFSTED’s latest publication about English.  There are some  interesting statements about the use of ICT in English with the main thrust being that the most effective schools are the ones that  recognised  ICT had fundamentally altered reading and writing.  As technology changes so do the literacy needs of [...]