Literacy, families and learning

One of the readers of this blog (Aimee) asked me in a comment some months ago for advice on " a list of recommended age appropriate toy...

I've written before about how to listen to children reading ( here and here ) but I like to repeat this topic regularly, and as it'...

As I have written in previous posts, literature has many purposes and benefits. It has the power to affect our lives, to teach, to offer mea...

As a keen blogger I know the various benefits of blogging as I'm sure do the readers of this blog. But how might we make better use of ...

The need for 'deep' reading As I said in my previous posts in this series on ' Improving Comprehension ', we need to encoura...

Beginning of the partnership Janet and Allen Ahlberg are amongst my all time favourite author/illustrator partnerships. For almost 20 years...