Tag: literacy
J K Rowling
I first heard about J K Rowling from my my local Junior School Head Teacher, Ron Dowding. The school had been shadowing the Carnegie Prize and had backed the first Harry Potter all the way. So much so that they won a visit From J K Rowling before anyone had heard of her. I believe…
Drawing needs instruction
You wouldn’t expect a child to learn to write without instruction, so why do we expect them to be able to draw without instruction? Writing is just another form of drawing – a method of making sense of the world and communicating ideas with marks. Most people agree with the saying that a picture speaks…