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Exciting delivery for Christmas of HIAS Teaching Reading for Comprehension Toolkits! Merry Christmas ⁦Emma Scribbans⁩ 🎁

Words of the day: “winter solstice” - the shortest day, today, when the sun reaches its lowest maximum height in the sky — after which light begins its slow climb back and night yields its reach. Midwinter, yule, the year’s pivot, Earth’s rebirth, a dawn of hope.

Podcast Episode 42 | Kate Atkins, Victoria Flynn & Owen Tromans talk about text rich learning ⁦⁩ ⁦Victoria Flynn⁩ rosendale.researchschool.org.uk/2019/01/11/pod…

Please check out our very own Owen Tromans and Victoria Flynn talking about text-driven learning journeys as part of Rosendale Research School's fantastic series of pedagogy podcasts. rosendale.researchschool.org.uk/2019/01/11/pod…

Great visit to British Library Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition. Wonderful to see the only manuscript copy of Beowulf in the flesh.

Word of the day: "flukkra" - large flakes of softly falling snow (Shetland). Compare "hundslappadrífa"; lit. "dog's-feet-snow" (Icelandic); "skelvie" (Scots; large-flaked snow); "goose-down snow" (English, regional); & "peaux de lièvres", i.e. snow-hare-skin snow (Quebecois).

Two nights ago the Northern Lights made a rare appearance in the skies above the Lake District: glowing scarves of light, swirling above the peaks. My father took this image of the aurora — Orion gleaming, the Milky Way’s aura, and an ancient ash tree keeping time on the earth.

Nurture your pupils’ writing skills by entering the BBC Radio 2 500 words competition. It is now open. It can be about ANYTHING you want – spaceships, grannies, insects, microwaves. Make sure you get your entries in by 7pm on Friday 8th March.

Fancy exploring some morphology to support your pupils in making good spelling choices? Why not visit the Open Resources tab on the English moodle english.hias.hants.gov.uk for some materials to support this. #morphology #spelling

Owen Tromans is reading ‘The Lost Book of Adventure’. This is a perfect pairing for forest schools themed work, or as a parallel text for Katherine Rundell’s ‘The Explorer’, with a range of text types to explore.

These vocabulary cards are based on the work of Fisher, Frey and Hattie Visible Learning. A really simple and effective approach to building vocabulary.

Day 1 - nominated by Jo Kenyon to choose a book I love each day for 5 days. Here’s my much-loved copy of ‘The Little Ghost’. One of the first books I remember reading ‘on my own’. Wonderful still, and check out that title font! I nominate Chris Cheal to share 5 loved books.

Day 2 - I loved ‘Redwall’ by Brian Jacques. Read loads of the series one long summer holiday. Probably started my enthusiasm for intricate setting description (and monastic mice).

Day 3 - Christopher Logue’s reimagining of the Iliad is something I could read again and again. By turns elegant, cinematic and utterly brutal, you can’t really describe it in a tweet. Even writing ‘tweet’ in the company of War Music seems ridiculous.

Day 4 - Pretty much perfect, this.

Day 5 - my favourite book to read aloud to UKS2. Criminally underrated and has inspired fantastic writing. Shades of Alan Garner and even M. R. James here.

Proud to be asked to share my ideas and spread the word about word study!