I’m noticing a certain phase at the moment. All those days and weeks and months of reading to Junior Reader are being repaid by return visits. Time for the apprentice reader to work through the same titles; take in what was missed in the listening, perhaps. Sometimes books are tackled again shortly after they are …
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That was the week that was: early May 14
We’re into May. It’s a strange time of year in school circles – feels like pretty much every week has a different pattern. Occasional days here; school productions there (not yet for Junior Reader, but the school got to watch the final year classes going through their paces). Junior Reader has become interested in birds …
Friday phrases: though his shoes were far too tight
I am thinking of the Lion Book of Humorous Verse again. I am tempted to include some more Hilaire Belloc, but I feel it only fair to devote a few lines to Edward Lear. Lear’s work received several mentions in the book, and I know it had an impact on me. Some of it, I …
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Sweeping clean
Remember all that spring cleaning earlier in the year? It kind of ground to a halt. But we’re trying to get going again – or at least, a bit more clean and tidy. A new broom sweeps clean, we’re told – and when you’re sweeping the same mess (or variants on it), sometimes you just …
Friday phrases: and his ball and his teddy
Over at Lit Kid, I wrote a while ago about the impact of recurring phrases – the ones you know are coming, the ones you are longing to hear. Some authors do far more. They weave a pattern of repeating words and sounds that is inseparable from the story itself. They are the basis of …
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