I am so pleased to be hosting a stop on the Tangletree Mysteries blog tour. I loved exploring Tangletree Mysteries: Peggy and Stu Investigate, a fun and vibrant graphic novel. Tangletree Mysteries was released in July 2023, written and illustrated by Steve Roberts and Joel Stewart and published by Welbeck Children’s Books. About the bookContinue reading “Blog tour: Tangletree Mysteries: Peggy and Stu Investigate by Steve Roberts and Joel Stewart”
Category Archives: Reading
Blog tour: Chasing the Shy Town by Erika McGann
I am so pleased to be hosting a stop on the Chasing the Shy Town blog tour. I loved the fun nature of Chasing the Shy Town, which encapsulates the innocence of children’s natural curiosity and delves into the impossibility of perfection in a child friendly way. Chasing the Shy Town was released in JuneContinue reading “Blog tour: Chasing the Shy Town by Erika McGann”
Reading Fluency
Fluency means “flowing freely” therefore reading fluency is the art of reading aloud, so that it ‘flows’ naturally for the speaker. It is important to note that reading fluency is one aspect (of many) that contributes to affluent readers. Reading fluency entails the combination and reciprocation of word reading with accuracy, automaticity and prosody. ThatContinue reading “Reading Fluency”
Blog Tour: The Wind Child by Gabriela Houston
I am delighted to be hosting the penultimate stop on The Wind Child blog tour. Stories have been told for over thousands of years, to entertain, to inform and to escape. I really love books that transport you to a faraway land – a land of make believe, where anything is possible. Gabriela Houston, selfContinue reading “Blog Tour: The Wind Child by Gabriela Houston”
A book for every pupil in lockdown
Reading is a multifaceted skill that develops through instruction and practice (Scarborough 2002). Children need to have a grasp of word reading: they need to have a secure understanding of the relationship between print (spelling) and the sounds they represent, the ability to manipulate these sound-spelling correspondence, segment words into individual sounds and blend them back together to readContinue reading “A book for every pupil in lockdown”
Are children listening?
Daily story time is embedded in my school, nothing is out on the tables, the children intently listen to the adult read from the class reader. But are they really listening or simply dreaming about the contents of their lunch boxes? This year we introduced Accelerated Reader (AR), a system to motivate children to read.Continue reading “Are children listening?”
Supporting the wider curriculum
Our school has been on an epic reading journey to say the least, from no library to an embedded reading culture. You will find reading advocates everywhere – one year 6 teacher promised her class at the start of the year, that she would read one children’s book a week and then place it onContinue reading “Supporting the wider curriculum”
Weaving non-fiction into the curriculum
Importance of non-fiction We want children to know and remember more, knowledge is power and is the epicentre of education. There is an array of evidence depicting that background knowledge is vital for reading comprehension. The more children know about a subject, the easier it is to read a text, understand it, and retain the information for later recollection. (Alexander, Kulikowich, &Continue reading “Weaving non-fiction into the curriculum”
Author Visits Inspire Reading
Two years ago, there was a lack of reading in my school….the library was turned into an extra classroom for Year 6….we had carousel reading lessons, you know, the ones where the teacher works with the least able group, everyone else mucks about or interrupts every 5 seconds and no-one gets any work done….the headteacherContinue reading “Author Visits Inspire Reading”
Being Miss Nobody
I was quite shocked when I read this book, Manor High School sounded like a nightmare gone bad. Bullies lying in wake to torment unsuspecting pupils, who it would seem would not hurt a fly: those in the school choir/band, library monitors and chess club members. Basically a throwback to cliques of geeks and coolContinue reading “Being Miss Nobody”
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