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Tag Archives: Teaching
How to Help Children Become Really Good Researchers
There was a conversation on Twitter recently about the use of KWL grids in primary schools. This method for organising a research session asks three questions: What is already known [K], What would like to be known [W] and What … Continue reading
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Tagged education, information literacy, James Herring, Libraries, PLUS, research skills, resources, School, Teaching
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Why Do Adults Enjoy Reading Children’s Books?
I no longer “need” to read children’s books and yet I still do. As a primary school librarian for more than seventeen years, in order to do my job properly, I read a broad range of books so that … Continue reading
Why Author Visits to Schools Matter
In 2013 the Society of Authors published a survey on the impact of author visits to schools. At that time I contributed to the survey and that author visits have a positive effect on promoting reading for pleasure amongst … Continue reading
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Tagged Author Visits, books, education, librarians, Libraries, Reading, reading promotion, Teaching
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School Libraries – Where Every Day is Empathy Day
2017 saw the celebration of the first Empathy Day to highlight empathy’s importance in our divided world and the power of stories to develop it. Following the success of that pilot it is now to be an annual event … Continue reading
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Tagged education, empathy, Empathy Day, Great School Libraries, librarians, Libraries, Reading, school_libraries, Teaching, Well being
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A Picture Book to Help Young Children Care About the Environment – Somebody Swallowed Stanley by Sarah Roberts
”Plastic” has been declared children’s word of the year after analysis of the entries to this year’s BBB Breakfast Show 500 words competition for children aged 5-13. Its appearance was up 100% from last year’s entries with titles including “The … Continue reading
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Tagged books, childrens_books, Ea, environment, Oceans Day, picturebooks, review, Teaching
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Why Great School Libraries Should Start in Primary Schools
Something very important happened at this year’s Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) School Libraries Group Conference. A brand new campaign was launched by CEO Nick Poole in his opening speech. The Great School Libraries Campaign sees CILIP … Continue reading
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Tagged books, education, librarians, Libraries, Primary Schools, Reading, school_libraries, Teaching
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I’m looking for a book about… Shakespeare for Primary School Children
Shakespeare’s birthday is remembered on 23rd April and this is a good time to introduce primary school children to the Bard. There are several websites providing resources to enable teachers to produce lessons about some of his greatest plays and … Continue reading
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Tagged books, childrens_books, education, resources, shakespeare, Teaching
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The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
Review and links to teaching resources Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, books, childrens_books, katherine rundell, rainforests, Reading, readingforpleasure, resources, review, Teaching
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Why School Librarians Are Educators Too and Why School Libraries Matter
‘’We are all educators…….accompanying young people in their efforts to build their lives for today and tomorrow.’’ For seventeen years I worked as a librarian in a school at which the words above formed part of the mission statement. … Continue reading
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Tagged childrens_books, education, empathy, Reading, readingforpleasure, school_libraries, Teaching
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The Lost Words – A Review and an Evening with Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
Books tend to be put in categories. Books for children, Young Adult books, ‘’coffee-table books’’, picture books, non-fiction and poetry are labels applied to many. Every so often a book appears that defies categorisation and The Lost Words is such … Continue reading
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Tagged books, illustration, jackie_morris, nature, review, robert_macfarlane, Teaching
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