Category: Reading and Literacy

  • Dark Claw on Kindle

    My Dark Claw Series is now on Kindle! It is the same as the book which contains the complete 6 books saga all in one volume, so you don’t have to wait to find out what happens. Better still, If you have Amazon Prime, you can read it for free! (You can read a load of…

  • Drawing is a writing skill

    Literacy skills in the UK have improved over the last few years, but writing skills have not improved at the same rate. There is also a divergence between boys and girls – girls doing markedly better than boys when it comes to writing. It goes without saying that poor writing skills are a major hinderance for…

  • We don’t need no imagination

    I saw a tweet yesterday that quite took my breath away. It was from Martin Daws, the Young People’s Laureate for Wales. The tweet was as follows: “Year 7 Student today “we don’t need imagination, we’ve got phones and stuff” I don’t need to explain what is so very wrong about that statement or why it is…