Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Learning how to write and speak: 'how we break things down' may not always be the best way to 'build things up'

Monday, 14 July 2025

A brand new document on writing in primary schools, and they didn't ask writers to help them! Lols

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Writing Framework: no poetry? no drama? Why not?

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

The New Writing Framework - first thoughts

Thursday, 26 June 2025

Why do children not like writing (see the recent report from the National Literacy Trust)

Friday, 6 June 2025

Before Gove, Blunkett and Baker, there was no good research on the teaching of English...WHAT?!

Monday, 2 June 2025

Bernard Newsome and this question: What else is writing other than 'grammar'?

Sunday, 11 May 2025

How picture books help young children's minds to grow

Sunday, 12 January 2025

Why doesn't the Dept of Education ask poets who do poetry writing workshops, to tell them how we get children to write poems?

Saturday, 11 January 2025

Poetry teaching in primary schools. What's going on?

Saturday, 16 November 2024

I was asked to comment on a 'teacher model' for writing in a primary school. I did.

Thursday, 7 November 2024

How and why the Primary English 'Writing' curriculum has got it wrong

Thursday, 19 September 2024

The Meteorite Gove hit schools and left this kind of chaos (and wrong advice) for children on how to write.

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Can poetry (and other literature) help with recovering from distress and trauma? A schools perspective

Saturday, 20 April 2024

My books for children that reflect Jewish history, Jewish folklore or my Jewish background

Monday, 8 April 2024

The True Story of the making of the book of 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' - please note the legal implications.

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