Here at Primary English, not a day goes by without us thinking about a book that we’ve seen or read and imagining the learning opportunities it holds. We are bookworms through and through and like all educators want to inspire a love of reading.

Here at Primary English HQ we’ve been busy assembling some of the spookiest children’s books we know to help you and your class enjoy some ghoulishly good learning this Halloween. We have ghostly Guided Reading Packs, spooky sets of Starting Points and a wicked Whole Class Reading Sequence.

A hugely popular article considering story structure and how understanding it, can help children with their own writing.

A selection of teaching ideas for The Polar Express to get you and your class feeling Christmassy.

Once upon an ordinary a day an ordinary teacher was looking for an ordinary book to read with her ordinary children during their ordinary guided reading lesson, when..she stumbled across a quite extraordinary book indeed: Once Upon an Ordinary School Day by Colin McNaughton and Satoshi Kitamura.