literacy

Planning meeting 101

Planning meetings, things you will need: insect spray, sunshine, water bags, intermittent WiFi, pens and paper. After the school visits,… more →

Are my students really reading? Yes! As in properly reading? Yes! The good news is that there are lots of… more →

Word reading games are not something I find particularly easy to design, so I’m really proud of this one. I… more →

Here’s a great wee writing activity that is quick and easy to put together. All I’ve done is sliced up… more →

Let’s build some words! We’ve been working hard on letter recognition and playing phonics awareness games, and some children are… more →

Letter recognition the fun way! I found lots of lovely letter resources and threw them together to make an enticing… more →

Let’s get ready to write! This week the writing table has no letter formation, we’re developing pre-writing skills by drawing… more →

Our egg hatched and out came a very hungry caterpillar! We’ve been reading the picture book, looking at BBC video… more →

Here’s a writing activity that I made years ago, but still going strong! Set up the game by matching the… more →

An independent reading and writing activity made with Tagxedo. I have this activity at a literacy free choice station and… more →

Learning about capital letters through the alphabet matching game. This is an independent activity that my children are enjoying at… more →