Category Archives: Literacy

Reading conferences

Posted on 17/06/2016 by timthelibrarian

“Reading conferences provide the most useful opportunities for formative assessment of students’ reading…” – Di Snowball, et al. Reading conferences are, as stated above, excellent. The students benefit measurably from the opportunity to receive immediate feedback from their teacher, get … Continue reading →

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Hop. Book. Chat. E02 has dropped.

Posted on 26/05/2016 by timthelibrarian

Twice as long is twice as good, right? Our second episode, Adaptations are the New Vampires, is twelve minutes of pure auditory joy about books that have been, or are about to be, turned into movies. Steven Spielberg, Suzanne Collins, … Continue reading →

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Introducing – Hop. Book. Chat.

Posted on 19/04/2016 by timthelibrarian

Jessica Holt, English teacher extraordinaire, and I have just created our first podcast! It’s called ‘Hop. Book. Chat.’. The first episode, Dragons are the New Vampires, is six and a half minutes about dragons in YA fiction. Listen here:

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Teaching Vocabulary

Posted on 20/02/2014 by timthelibrarian

Following on from Hugh’s and Di’s presentation yesterday, I had some thoughts about integrating what they were talking about into the school’s teaching frameworks. GANAGing vocabulary When is the best time to introduce new terms? New terms will be encountered … Continue reading →

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