Literacy Resources

I have written several times about Found Poetry. It is a talk for writing activity that allows children to magpie words and phrases from great writers and roll the language over their tongues so that its’ patterns become internalised. It also allows children to combine words in different ways.  This is a high value activity. [...]

This can sometimes be the genre that is the most difficult for us to find examples of to use with children.  That tells us something.  It tells us that in ‘real life’ you don’t find explanations on their own.  They are ususally part of another text such as a report and therefore make a hybrid [...]

This has to be one of the best titles for a long time!  A drove of bullocks by PatrickGeorge is the most beautifully designed non-fiction text around collective nouns. I love an implausibility of gnus or a loveliness of ladybirds.  Each double page spread illustrates the collective noun in a very clever, minimalist way with additional [...]