Tag: storytelling
School Visits – What a performance!
My eye was caught by a link to a blog entitled Dealing with performance anxiety, with Dr David Roland. It got me thinking. Not being an actor, I’ve always say that I “Perform” my stories during the sessions I do in schools and libraries. I always add the ironic quote marks. I’ve had no training…
Why Phonics are useless on their own
The older I get, the more I realise that there is never one simple easy answer. Duality or multiplicity is built into the fabric of life. Yin/Yang, Left/Right, Relativity/Quantum theory. All systems work happily enough, but each needs the other to make sense of the whole. So it is with learning to read. The mechanistic…
The incredibly easy way to become a great writer!
There is only one way to learn how to write well, increase your vocabulary and really begin to understand grammar and language structure. You need to experience writing in action, by reading it and listening to it. As we read, we imbibe new words, new idioms, new turns of phrases, new ways of breaking the…
