Literacy Resources

My copy of The High Street arrived on Christmas Eve so I had to wait a while to settle down and enjoy it.  I was not disappointed.  This is a book of lists (Yr1 teachers will be pleased to hear) and visits to the local shops. This book is the antonym of cumulative – I [...]

Followers of this blog will know only to well my penchant for a good book to use to support literacy teaching.  Well thanks to @bogchild we have a new one suitable for Yr2. This is the story of Henry and what he wanted more than anything else in the whole wide world.  A perfect pet, of course, [...]

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 [...]

Happy New Year to you all.  2011 looks like being every bit as exciting as 2010 did.  I thought I would start off the year as I mean to go on and  therefore want to share a great new book with you. The Beasties by Jenny Nimmo and Gwen Millard is a fantastic book that [...]

Over the summer holidays I normally update our texts that teach lists.  These are books that we think support the teaching of literacy.  On my desk I have a pile of new ones passed to me by our fantastic School Library Service so a big thank you to @bogchild for them all.  Here are a [...]

As part of our Talk for Writing training we have been focusing on non-fiction using the wonderful book Think of an Eel by Karen Wallace and Mike Bostock.  The two voices in this book are very different; one a literary non-fiction with the most poetic language possible and the other a more formal report tone [...]

I have now been blogging for 13 months – I forgot the blog birthday.  Strange how online life mirrors real life ; ) I thought for the end of 2009 I would pick out 10 things that I discovered and that have become a part of me, some of which I have blogged about and [...]

If you enjoyed Traction Man Is Here then you will also enjoy this latest book from Mini Grey.  Once again Traction Man has a series of adventures only this time Scrubbing Brush goes missing and Traction Man is on a mission to find him. Everyone will remember Traction Man’s all-in-one knitted green romper suit.  Well [...]