Ed Walsh on Science
Ed looks at the benefit of building positive experiences from the outset - food for thought for the new programmes of study for science. Read More
Key Stage 3
A New Reader: Call Me Drog
Call Me Drog is a refreshing new novel for the classroom and would work well with Lower Key Stage three classes. It is a different and absorbing book that will appeal to both boys and girls. The story is centred around and told… Read More
Why you should teach Call Me Drog as a class reader
By Joanna Fliski A good class reader is a very special thing indeed. My absolute favourite time as a teacher is when a class is collectively absorbed in a piece of literature. The quiet calm and sense of peace, the feeling that whatever else goes… Read More
The Horror Genre: Creating Atmosphere
by Naomi Hursthouse What is it about the horror genre that continues to grip teenage readers? Two hundred years ago the young Mary Shelley was so enthralled by the ghost stories she heard that her imagination gave birth to Frankenstein. And now, my students still flock to the horror section of… Read More
Writing and editing with Darren Shan
The idea for Cirque Du Freak popped into my head one day when I was sitting in a car, babysitting a young cousin who was asleep on the back seat. The question a writer gets asked the most is “Where do your… Read More
Using post-its to improve AfL
Harness the power of the post-it! Read More
Fun with Foreshadowing
By Cathy MacPhail You know the kind of stories I love? The kind of stories that begin like this: We all arrived at the lakeside cottage, my friends and I, for a weekend of fun. The lake sparkled in the sun; we could hear the birds singing… Read More
Writing creatively
We all know that the burden of marking and assessment is particularly heavy if you’re an English teacher. And yet one of the things that keeps us going can be those little moments of frisson when we read something that one of our students has written that is just fantastic. Read More
How a Book is Made – The Illustrator
Meet Matt Timson, illustrator. Matt drew all the pictures on the cover and inside the exciting Lone Wolf book. Matt is going to tell you about how he brought this dark and frightening tale to life with images. Matt… Read More
How a Book is Made – The Editor
Meet Cathy Martin, editor. Cathy is the Commissioning Editor for all the ‘Read On’ books including, of course, Lone Wolf. This means she came up with ideas for the books and found authors and illustrators to… Read More