Zombies and Independent Reading

Over the last few years, I have come across a bunch of students who are highly motivated and interested in anything to do with Zombies! Now, Zombies are not something I know a lot about... but what I do know is that providing independent and/or shared reading choices in a student's area(s) of interest is

Emergent Literacy Planning

Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on more emergent literacy planning for teachers, schools and parents to use. Today I have put the first three packs up online at www.comprehensiveliteracy.com under emergent literacy planning. The three new packs are on the topics of feelings, preferences and descriptions. Each pack includes a

Shared Reading - Keep the Interaction Going!

Nearly 5 years ago I wrote a blog post called "Shared Reading: Focus on Interaction". Shared reading is when we read a book interactively with someone else - and the focus during the book reading is on that interaction. As you are aware, there are a lot of electronic resources being shared at the moment,

I Don't Like Farts! Book to share

After my recent visit to Durham Road School, the awesome Mary-Louise Bertram suggested that I share this book. She thought some of you might enjoy it as much as she did - or maybe it was her students and staff who enjoyed it....... And so I present - "I don't like Farts!". Please download it