by admin | Jul 5, 2012 | Bibliography, Infants, Poetry, Teaching News
I accidentally came across this book of rhymes on the internet while looking for something else. There are 24 pages of rhymes, songs, nursery rhymes, hello and goodbye rhymes, fingerplays, action rhymes and lap rhymes. It comes from the Henrico County Public Libraries...
by admin | Jun 6, 2012 | Book Reviews
Rugby Spirit is a book about a young boy, Eoin, who is going boarding to Castlerock College, and what he doesn’t know is that his grandad, Dixie Madden, is an absolute legend there. When he arrives, he has already made friends such as Alan and Rory who start to...
by admin | Jun 4, 2012 | Free
This resource provides a chapter by chapter list of questions for the Michael Morpurgo novel “Kensuke’s Kingdom”, a novel about a boy washed overboard onto a desert island. These could be done orally, they could be used as comprehension questions or they could...
by admin | Jun 4, 2012 | Book Reviews, Class Novel
The Cave of Secrets by Morgan Llewellyn is a story about Tom Flynn, the rejected son of an indebted land owner. One day, running from his father’s temper, he stumbles across a cave in Roaring Water Bay and there he meets Donal, who is different to Tom in every...
by admin | May 9, 2012 | Teaching News
Yesterday May 8th, President Michael D. Higgins announced the appointment of author and illustrator Niamh Sharkey as Ireland’s second Laureate na nÓg. Niamh commences her two-year term of office and succeeds Siobhán Parkinson, our inaugural Laureate na nÓg who...
