Spooky Stories for Halloween (and all year round)
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.
Story Structure: Quests and Journeys
A hugely popular article considering story structure and how understanding it, can help children with their own writing.
The Polar Express
A selection of teaching ideas for The Polar Express to get you and your class feeling Christmassy.
Once upon an ordinary school day
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.