Tag: key stage 2

• I know where I am going: writing fantastical, personal recounts.

  

  This blog, much like my last post on picturebook biographies, is another complement to a blog I wrote for my employers @HertsEnglish.   In that blog I explore statutory writing assessment but will also refer to some ideas for writing in the primary classroom.  The blogs on this site serve to go into greater detail around […]

  Martin Galway

  May 2, 2018

  blog, children’s literature

  key stage 2, narrative, picturebooks, reading, writing

• Bringing Life to Words (and Pictures): picturebook biographies for children

  

  This blog complements another written for my employer’s site (visit us on Twitter: @Herts English).  In that blog, I offer up some advice on helping children to demonstrate a particular standard in statutory writing assessments. I won’t get caught up in further detail here, other than to say that the other blog includes a section […]

  Martin Galway

  May 2, 2018

  blog, children’s literature

  biography, comprehension, greater depth, key stage 2, picturebooks, reading, recounts, structure, writing

• A short blog about short stories…

  

  I shan’t beat about the bush.  This is not how it was supposed to be.  I have just spent most of the afternoon writing a blog on the use of short stories in KS2 and lost all of it just before publishing.  This is take 2 with some of the heart removed.  Apologies. Out of […]

  Martin Galway

  January 28, 2018

  blog, children’s literature, reading, teaching & learning, writing

  key stage 2, narrative, reading, short stories, structure, writing