Doing a Book Review

Doing a Book Review

Tomorrow, Thursday March 7th, is World Book Day so I thought I’d share some ideas about doing book reviews with your class. My pupils recently did book reviews on their blogs. The following are some guidelines I gave them for completing the exercise. You may...
The Iron Man Workpack

The Iron Man Workpack

This workpack for the novel “The Iron Man”, breaks the book into eighteen day’s work. There is an after-reading activity, homework activity and suggested vocabulary for each day. Key comprehension strategies are utilised to assess understanding of...
Tumble Books Cloud Service

Tumble Books Cloud Service

South Dublin County Libraries have introduced Tumble Book Cloud Junior, which is an online collection of ebooks and read-along books, graphic novels, educational videos, and audio books. The service is designed specifically for ages 7-11 years. You get unlimited...
Novels With Issues

Novels With Issues

Thanks to South Dublin County Council Libraries (SDCC) for providing me with this resource. It consists of a list of novels and books to help children cope with life’s challenges. A lot of research has obviously gone into the selection of these novels and it is...
Classroom Novels

Classroom Novels

Thanks to South Dublin County Council Libraries (SDCC) for providing me with this resource. It consists of a list of novels suitable for literacy work in primary classrooms. SDCC has thirty copies of each of these novels available to loan to schools in their area for...