Category: Reading and Literacy
Map Pad – Big Cat Phonics
It’s lovely when you get a package in the mail that you aren’t expecting. It’s even nicer when you open up the package and find they are advance copies of your new book! I’m really pleased with Map Pad. Writing stories for early stage phonics books is a bit like playing a game of Sudoku.…
Whatever Happened To Manual Instruction?
Yesterday I visited Lydbrook Primary School, here in the Forest of Dean. It was once a village school that took children up to school leaving age – Lydbrook was a mining village and many of the children went to work underground or in other manual trades. One of the teaching blocks has this fabulous sign…
