literacy

May 25 2014

Making the explicit, explicit

By Mark Anderson Books 5 Comments

David Didau's new book, the 'Secret of Literacy' landed on my desk this past week with great anticipation. His last book, the 'Perfect Ofsted English Lesson' was a great success and being an avid reader of his blog and enjoying many of our conversations over the years, I was looking forward…

Apr 14 2014

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Poster on difficult to spell words

By Mark Anderson ICT No Comments

Simply click the image to the right for a high resolution version of the poster for you to print / display. Please observe CC should you do so. Thanks!

Jan 26 2014

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#mytop5 – How to help dyslexic children in your classroom

By Mark Anderson #mytop5 6 Comments

In an attempt to share some of my ideas on teaching and learning and to help cement some of my thoughts in to something more concrete, I aim to write a top 5 list of ideas to help in the classroom each week on topics I'm thinking about at the…

Nov 02 2013

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Google Story Builder

By Mark Anderson EdTech 16 Comments

Launched some time ago now, Google Story Builder allows you (or even better, your students) to create short movies or video stories in a Google Docs style environment... Great if your students already use Google Apps for Edu. You can choose different characters, story and music and when you're done…