Category: Reading and Literacy

  • The Dragon Gold Trilogy

    Dragon Red, the final part of the Dragon Gold Trilogy is at the printers and is due out on the 1st March – not long to go! Firefly Press have made this great poster for it for the Year of Legends 2017 – a wonderful Promotion that is underway in Wales this year. If you have…

  • Questions for a Children’s Author

    I visited St Paul’s CofE Primary School in Gloucester last week and some of the children still had questions to ask when our time was up. I asked their teacher Mrs Bevan, to send me an email with the questions I hadn’t answered, and promised to make a video for her and her class 5.…

  • Full Stop. Comma, new Paragraph – all you need to write anything.

    Sometimes, when I hear of the complicated grammar that primary children have to learn, I want to cry. The grammar that the curriculum requires them to learn is not to help them read or write, but to help academic examiners tick boxes. Reading and marking a piece of writing is a difficult and subjective process. It…