Book Review: Dragon Eggs Series
johndabell Phonics Books – Dragon Eggs Series At a glance A superb portfolio of highly structured and decidable phonic story books Step-by-step progression for successful outcomes Reading practice with a laser…
Reading
Skimming and Scanning
Everyone is raving about the new reading framework. The reading framework: teaching the foundations of literacy is the latest guidance for schools to meet existing expectations for teaching early reading.…
Primary Teachers As Lectoras
“Mrs Buckthorpe is really good at reading us a story because she puts on different voices.”
Diversity Reading Gaps: Miss, Where Am I?
Do your bookshelves need diversity updating?
Inappropriate Highlighting
Why do we need to be wary of what others highlight?
Foggy Writing
Clear writing and readability is everything. It will make or break your engagement and success with the text. Sometimes writing can get a bit thick and a bit foggy. It’s…
Personalised Reading
Having personalised children’s books with your child as the main character has become very popular over the years. It’s also big business but does it ‘work’? Does having a persoanlised…
Ethnic Representation within UK Children’s Literature
How many black or minority ethnic characters are there in children’s books?
Use TV Subtitles To Boost Literacy
Could TV subtitles help children with their reading?
Reading Aloud Is Good For You
Forget silent reading, children need to be make some noise. Research tells us that reading aloud can be highly beneficial and we should therefore be promoting ‘oral production’, especially for…