@jamiethomastfw.bsky.social
English consultant, Director of Strategy for Talk for Writing and Talk for Reading
I could not be prouder of this book. Should be such a great support for all teachers in planning units of work in Talk for Writing. Pre-order your copy today!
shop.talk4writing.com/products/inspiโฆ
A really rich day exploring text potential through Talk for Reading, then levels of sophistication in Talk for Writing with Penn Wood Primary. Loved these examples of writing in the style of an author and rewriting from different viewpoints! @piecorbett.bsky.social
31.03.2025 16:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โฆI understand why schools have Reading spines but there also needs to be flexibility and room for the teacher to drive and be passionate about what they are reading together. Sometimes itโs OK to read a book together as a class because itโs just fun.
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Teachers need to know books really well so they know when to get lost in them, knowing the perfect places to stop and leave children waiting for more. Let the questions be theirs, leave them full of questions but without answers. There is an art to reading a class bookโฆ
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The latest Read for Empathy collection has been launched. As always, it's full of absolutely superb books, including graphic novels, poetry, picturebooks and non-fiction. The work @empathylabuk.bsky.social are doing is incredibly important. More information here: www.empathylab.uk/rfe
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Author SF Said with covers of his books Varjak Paw and Tyger
TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS, PARENTS! If you're looking for a free bookish activity for your kids, here's a lesson-long virtual school visit I did with @booktrust.bsky.social, all about how I went from being a young reader to writing books like Varjak Paw & Tyger! #BookSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWHw...
Children's books are not a luxury. Libraries & librarians are not a luxury. The teachers who work so hard to inspire kids to read are not a luxury. If you cut or undermine or lose these things โ #literacy will cease to be a basic human right, and will become a luxury, available only to a few.
10.02.2025 19:45 โ ๐ 140 ๐ 55 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0When your class are enjoying each other's company, caring about the wellbeing of their friends and supporting one another in lessons, that's the time to look round the room and realise there's no other job that can compare. Before it all kicks off again.
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Pencil sketch of a tiny dragon emerging from a spiky conker shell.
Conker Dragon.
10.02.2025 21:03 โ ๐ 228 ๐ 35 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2I reckon another 10 - 15 backers would get this over the line. ๐ฆ๐ฆ
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A monochrome portrait sketch of the small predatory dinosaur, Velociraptor. It is shown with open, drooling jaws and long, quill-like feathers sprouting from the top of its head.
Raptor.
Pencil & digital.
#SciArt
Have just updated my @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page with some new recommendations. There are several lists including Picturebook Assemblies, Favourite KS2 Read-Alouds, Poetry for Primary Schools and more. An easy way to support independent bookshops.
uk.bookshop.org/shop/reading...
What a creative day yesterday at Hallsville Primary in Newham with @piecorbett.bsky.social @whatsfsaid.bsky.social combining to match teachersโ writing with authorsโ insights! It was a privilege to be invited.
@englishassociation.bsky.social @natefeed.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social
A digital illustration of a tiny red and green dragon perched on a leaf.
A digital illustration of a large, brown tyrannosaurus, sat on a muddy shoreline, gazing across a lake with tall trees around its shore.
A pencil sketch of two large dinosaurs, affectionately nuzzling.
A digital illustration of a herd of woolly mammoths walking into a fierce blizzard in a white-out.
Hello new followers.
Iโm Andy - an illustrator of dragons, dinosaurs and other extinct animals. I work in both traditional and digital media, and am a passionate advocate for human-made art. You can find all my work, purchase my books and contact me here: www.andyfrazer.com
Cartoon showing Snoopy by Charles M Schulz writing and rewriting. Caption: "Good Writing Is Rewriting"
My top tips for #NationalStorytellingWeek:
1) Write the story YOU want to read.
2) No writer can write a perfect story in one draft. You need to write, read, edit, rewrite. Rewriting IS writing! (see art below, by Charles M Schulz)
3) Whatever happens - NEVER GIVE UP!
sfsaid.com/2017/01/thre...
Happy World Read Aloud Day! There's a kind of magic that happens when you read aloud to kids. Just 10 minutes a day can be enough to help them find the love of books & become lifelong readers. But the more you do, the better - it will change their lives FOREVER! #WorldReadAloudDay #literacy
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