Literacy and ICT

by | Apr 13, 2014 | blogposts, General Thoughts

At the end of March, I presented at the Derbyshire LA ICT/Computing Conference. I was running a workshop on the use of ICT within Literacy lessons and I thought that I should share the links to the resources that I talked about. There are some that have been around...

Random Sentences

by | Dec 9, 2012 | blogposts, Curriculum

As I mentioned a few posts ago, I am having a bit of a focus on writing interesting sentences with my class. They are mixed Year 3/4 and of varying abilities as you would expect. I have been working on whiteboard work as a whole class looking at connectives and...

Google Docs for shared writing

by | Nov 10, 2012 | blogposts, Curriculum

This week we were focussing on the book Where the Forest Meets the Sea and we were looking at expanding the simple sentences in the book into paragraphs. This included using our senses to think about what else was in the picture and how we could extend the text...

Writing Exciting Sentences

by | Nov 7, 2012 | blogposts, Curriculum

A little while ago I was talking to some people who had attended literacy training with Alan Peat (@alanpeat – http://www.alanpeat.com/) and they mentioned his book “Writing Exciting Sentences” and being an area I was interested in, I bought the...

Spending time in the shed

by | Jul 1, 2012 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software

I had to write a quick post about a truly stunning website that launched recently. I was lucky enough to see it in the first few days of it being online and since then it has grown and grown. The site in question? The Literacy Shed. Now, literacy has always been...