Tag: reading
Why Where the Wild things Are is my Favourite Children’s Book
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, was a hugely influential book for me. When I first encountered it in the college library in the early 1980s I was bowled over. In this book, I could see how all my various talents might come together. That was the day I realised there was a…
School Libraries and Librarians – The Beating Heart of the School
The recent report by the Libraries all party parliamentary group came to the conclusion that school libraries and school librarians are a good thing. I tweeted the following: If you want to raise literacy standards in schools, isn’t a school library and a librarian who knows about books an obvious place to start? I’ve been…
Drawing for Literacy
Children love drawing. Give them paper and pencil, suggest something for them to draw – maybe show them how to draw it – and they are away. While they draw, they are improving their hand/eye co-ordination skills, learning about the thing they are drawing and building up a story. When I show a class of…
