The latest book we wish to share with you is another by the wonderful Benji Davis. ‘Tad’ tells the heart-warming tale of the smallest tadpole in the pond. Not yet a frog, she is forever watching her tadbrothers and tadsisters Read more…
How are coral reefs and trees connected? Sadly, the changes to our climate and increased global warming is affecting our oceans. As oceans become warmer, they become more acidic. This is spoiling the fragile relationship between coral polyps and the Read more…
We were lucky enough here at The Literacy Company to receive an advanced copy of Katie May Green’s forthcoming picture book. Everybody in our team loves Katie May Green’s first rhyming adventure ‘Seen and Not Heard’ – a fabulous book Read more…
Another year of national testing is over. Whatever your thoughts on the test itself – its readability, the appropriateness of the texts, the expectations on pupil’s vocabulary, or whether our 10- and 11-year olds should even be subjected to it Read more…
In the 2014 National Curriculum, the need for pupils to have an ‘acquisition and command of vocabulary’ was a key statement. The role this would play in their learning and development was clear, but 5 years on how many of Read more…
Here at The Literacy Company, we find nothing more satisfying than discovering a cracking new book. Our latest review ‘Tin’, the debut novel by Padraig Kenny, has been a firm favourite in our office for while now and we thought Read more…
We stumbled across ‘Wisp: A Story of Hope’, a truly stunning picture book, by chance while gathering together resources for our SMSC units of work on the theme of Refugees. Among the books we chose, Wisp stands out like a Read more…
With a curriculum packed full of valuable content and pressures on primary schools to deliver on ever more challenging targets in end of key stage testing, the teaching of SMSC and British Values is often an area that is squeezed Read more…
We had been speaking to Head of School at Wolverham, Jenni Ogden, in our previous post about her experience of Pathways to Write and the mastery approach to writing her school have been piloting for us. Not only have Wolverham Read more…
We were delighted when this latest book by Benji Davies arrived on our doorstep. We are big fans of his previous work (The Storm Whale and The Storm Whale in Winter), having used and shared them many times on our Read more…
