Category: Reading and Literacy

  • Dark Claw – Episode 2

    Dark Claw seeks revenge and will not cease until he has destroyed every living Muss in the entire Universe with his deadly Fworgonzola Stonker Ray. Who can possibly go up against him and save all living Muss from certain destruction? In episode 2, Onlee One, with his friends, Hammee and Chinchee discover their destiny! See…

  • Using Models when designing characters

    In this video, I show you the models I made when I was designing the characters and spaceships in my Dark Claw series of story books. Dark Claw is an evil Kat who is intent on destroying all the Muss in the Universe. Muss are anything from mice and hamsters to rats and chinchillas! The…

  • The myth of children’s short attention span

    My eye was caught by a TES article called Five banana skins that teachers should watch out for . The Third point was: Fixation error – This is where we keep on following the same process even though it has become clear that it is no longer working. It is very easy, as a confident teacher, to blame the kids rather…