Tag: reading

  • Cwmaman Infants

    I had a wonderful day with Cwmaman Infants today. The school is hidden way up at the top of the valley. I almost felt I was coming to the top of a fiord in Norway. Cwmaman is the home of the Stereophonics and this was the school they went to! I read Little Horrors to…

  • St Margaret's Primary – Aberdare

    St Margaret’s Primary in Aberdare, South Wales, is quite a small school. I was pleased of this as I was quite tired by the end of this week of school visiting. Smaller group sizes means less projecting to a large audience, so today’s sessions were much more intimate. I was impressed by one writer in…

  • AND – is not a connecting word!

    So often, when reading children’s writing, I come across the word, and. When I challenge the children about it, they tell me it’s a connecting word. Well, I say it’s an adding word. It adds sentences together, like a sticky, gunky goo, making them grow longer and longer, and windier and windier. What’s wrong with…