Showing posts with label reading for enjoyment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading for enjoyment. Show all posts
Monday, 16 September 2019

The Right Book for the Right Child (Guest Blog Post By Victoria Williamson)

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I remember very clearly when my love affair with Jane Austen began. It was the summer between fifth and sixth year of high school, when I ...
Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Reading For Displeasure: 13 Books To Take Children Out Of Their Comfort Zone

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Reading for pleasure is all the rage in schools, but how often do we, and the children we teach, read for displeasure? Or, perhaps more a...
Monday, 26 February 2018

Book Review: 'The Children of Castle Rock' by Natasha Farrant

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‘The Children of Castle Rock’ is a daring new adventure story in the tradition of all good boarding school novels. Lovers of Harry Potter,...
Thursday, 11 January 2018

Book Review: 'Make Me Awesome' by Ben Davis

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In this hilarious send up of self-help guides and larger-than-life celebrity life coaches Ben Davis introduces Freddie, gamer and son of ...
Sunday, 29 October 2017

Book Review: 'The End of the Sky' by Sandi Toksvig

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It's no secret that one of my favourite books for children is 'Hitler's Canary' by Sandi Toksvig , so when her agent off...
Friday, 25 August 2017

Independent Reading With My Children

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I often try to catch my children unawares in order to film them carrying out their day-to-day activities without the inevitable showiness th...
Friday, 18 August 2017

Book Review: 'All The Things That Could Go Wrong' by Stewart Foster

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This book isn’t about Dan. And it isn’t about Alex. It’s a book about bullying and friendship. Dan is angry about his brother and Alex has...
Wednesday, 17 May 2017

From The @TES Blog: Why Every Primary School Needs To Embrace Non-Fiction

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Everyone has their favourite children’s book. And it is almost always a work of fiction. While children do read a lot of non-fiction, it i...
Thursday, 20 April 2017

Book Review: 'It Ain't So Awful, Falafel' by Firoozeh Dumas

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Firoozeh Dumas is an Iranian author - right away you have a reason to be using this book, 'It Ain't So Awful, Falafel', in you...
Sunday, 2 April 2017

On the TES Blog: The 9 Essential Components of a KS2 Reading Scheme

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After the shock results of the key stage 2 reading test last year, there is barely a primary school in the country that hasn't priorit...
Monday, 13 March 2017

Book Review: 'The Night Spinner' by Abi Elphinstone

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Ask a child what 'The Night Spinner' by Abi Elphinstone is about and they will speak of magic and monsters, adventure and action. ...
Monday, 30 January 2017

Changing Hearts, Minds, Lives and the Future: Reading With Children for Empathy

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There is no better place to tackle issues traditionally covered in PSHCE lessons than in a reading session. I don’t mean just by reading n...
Wednesday, 9 November 2016

Scaffolding Inference (Quick Reference Guide)

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Inference skills in the new cognitive domains are summarised as: 2d: make inferences from the text / explain and justify inferences with...
Saturday, 20 August 2016

Being A Reading Teacher

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At the beginning of this year I decided to shake myself out of a long slumber, to blow the dust off my 'library' and to become a r...
Monday, 22 February 2016

Reading for Pleasure

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Today we are roughly 14% of the way through this year. I am currently at 12% of my way through reading the fifty books that I've chall...