Teacher and author friends! What tips would you give to parents and teachers for how to promote and aid children with developing their cre...

 Kirsty Applebaum, the author of one my current favourite reads ' The Middler ' (definitely a 5 star rated book - read my review h...

Time in a primary classroom is at a premium: there are so many things to try to fit in. Even under the umbrella of English there is handw...

The EEF's KS2 Literacy Guidance has as one of its recommendations that teachers should 'develop pupils' transcription and s...

Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton are the authors of the Football School series (as well as newspaper articles and several grown up books ab...

My new year 5 team and I sat down to plan together for the first time last week. Our class novel is Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and th...

Tania Unsworth, author of the wonderful The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was A Mermaid describes the process she goes through when writing ...

It crept towards her, out of the pages of her diary. Those empty rectangles of nothing. And from where there were entries and to-do list...

Hello and welcome to another blog post on thatboycanteach.blogspot.com, the blog that has done for teachers ' what being hit repeatedl...

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An excerpt from 'To Kill A Mockingbird': "Miss Caroline started the day by reading us a story about cats. The cat...