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.

Writing moderation is the school assessment system's version of Weights and Measures. It's a system where producers – you, bring your product – the children's writing, to be weighed, measured and scrutinised by your peers. It's the way that we maintain 'the standard' and use an agreed set of criteria by which we can grade that produce.

A range of approaches to support you as you model writing to children in KS1 and KS2.

Food appears in many stories, often as a vehicle for moving the narrative forward. In this article we consider where food features in well-known stories and how children can use these examples in their own writing.

Word clouds are a popular way of representing information and they can be seen everywhere. But how can we use them in the classroom? Here's a list of ten easy tried and tested ways to use them to support teaching and learning.

A hugely popular article looking at voyage and return (sometimes called home-away-home) stories. The article refers to well-known children’s stories and films and shows that knowing the structure of these stories can support children with their own narrative writing.