Tag: boys and reading
Happy Empathy Day!
Happy Empathy Day? What’s that? Oh no! Not another weird American idea we are going to have to buy greetings cards for? Today is actually the first Empathy Day. In relation to this post I should be calling it #EmpathyDay because hashtags and social media are one of the main cause for the recent lowering of empathy in…
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…
Do children need to learn to read anymore?
I obviously think learning to read is a great idea. I earn my living writing children’s books. Children’s hard labour keeps me busy with honest toil. I wouldn’t want children to grow up without recourse to the wonderful worlds of fantasy that I was able to explore in my youth. Narnia was not just a collection…