Author Archives: Read with Julia
Lifetime Achievement Award 2020
David McKee is BookTrust’s worthy winner for 2020!
Have you heard about ‘Isabel’s Noisy Tummy’?
2 years ago today
Written 09/09/2020 Published 01/09/2022 This is the embarrassingly true story of how I introduced myself to my new colleagues on the first day of the 2020/2021 academic year.
Comfort Reading
In these strange and difficult days, I felt this was worth returning to.
Forty-nine
I am a 49 year old woman. Is that why I’m having trouble getting a teaching job?
Scaffolding
The Practice of Scaffolding in the Teaching of Reading
(Shared Reading meets Reading Recovery, thanks to Seamus Heaney…)
Have you met Lenny Levi?
Alleluia!
Sharing Easter greetings and Resurrection Sunday’s sunrise from Ledbury, Herefordshire.
More than candles
‘Faith is not a pathetic sentiment, but robust vigorous confidence built on the fact that God is holy love.’ (Oswald Chambers)
Decodable phonics?
Love them or loathe them phonics decodables are part of the furniture in primary classrooms today.
Here are some pointers for parents who might be wondering what to do with them…
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