Celebrate World Book Day: Creative and Fun Ideas to Ignite a Love for Reading

Celebrate World Book Day: Creative and Fun Ideas to Ignite a Love for Reading

World Book Day Ideas 2024: Create a Love of Reading A literary adventure of epic proportions! World Book Day, the international celebration of books and reading, is fast approaching. In honour of this special occasion, we’ve curated a list of creative and fun ways to express your love for reading with your class, and instil…

Improving Literacy In Key Stage 1: Skills and Processes

Improving Literacy In Key Stage 1: Skills and Processes

What Does the Evidence Say About Improving Literacy in KS1? Literacy encompasses not only the ability to read and write but also a range of intricate skills such as word-level competencies like spelling and word-reading, as well as text-level abilities like reading comprehension and writing composition. There are a number of ways to improve literacy…

Sensory Templates For Early Literacy
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Sensory Templates For Early Literacy

The influence for these early literacy sensory templates is the book Find Colours by Tamara Shopsin and Jason Fulford. It features die-cut pages which you “colour” yourself by holding them over different surfaces that become the colours. Early Literacy Activities One of the challenging elements of special education is finding or creating motivating and engaging…

Pancake Day Sensory Story
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Pancake Day Sensory Story

A Sensory Recipe/Poem for Pancake Day Just a little bit of fun for Pancake day. a sensory story/recipe for encouraging messy play or adding a little bit of literacy and fun into food tech lessons. As always written with SEND children in mind this is a simple recipe with poem/Sensory story to go with it….

A-Z of world book day ideas – That aren’t dressing up!
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A-Z of world book day ideas – That aren’t dressing up!

World Book Day Teaching Activities As a parent, I am starting to dread the yearly costume hunt that World Book Day has become. This year in Sainsbury’s the dressing-up display was 10 meters followed by two small shelves of books. However, I do think that World Book Day has the potential to inspire creativity and…

Aspie Author: A Journey into Sharing her Imagination with the World
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Aspie Author: A Journey into Sharing her Imagination with the World

I want to thank Elizabeth Jade for contributing this post on her journey into publishing her first book to Inclusiveteach.com. Please support Elizabeth by sharing her story widely and consider buying a copy of Akea – The power of destiny.

2 Great Books for Children about Autism.
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2 Great Books for Children about Autism.

Books to Teach Children About Autism This Is a guest blog by Andrea from A Bundle of Books children’s bookshop in Herne Bay. We were delighted to be asked to support a preschool in the first-ever Schools’ Autism Awareness Week. We wanted to find books about autism that enabled children to recognise and learn about…