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Welcome all Members!

Welcome to the UKLA members’ blog! This blog is a new feature of the website which enables members to share literacy-related news. We welcome any contibutions with a positive literacy focus but will not publish posts which are deemed to be seeking to endorse or promote commercial products or services. Have you just started a research project or had a successful book week at school? Perhaps you have read an interesting article recently or attended an exciting conference which left you feeling enthused. If so, we’d love to read about it. We hope you enjoy using this new feature and we look forward to hearing from all members of the UKLA community. Although this is not a discussion board, we would like to encourage members to comment on the news posted by others – especially if you have been inspired by one of the posts. We are all literacy enthusiatsts and committed to developing best practice. Sharing our work will be a good thing for all. Happy posting! Web Development Team

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Children’s Poetry Archive project

I have been involved with a really exciting research and development project with UKLA and the Children's Poetry Archive (http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/home.do) this year. The aim of the project was to develop ways of enriching and enlivening children’s and teachers’ experience of poetry and poets. Three leading teachers working in classrooms across the primary age range have planned and taught units of work based around poetry and poets on the Archive. The results, soon to be posted on the  Archive, demonstrate what a rich resource it is for stimulating children’s interest in poetry. We will be presenting a paper at the International Conference in July and I’m hoping to write an article for UKLA soon…

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2010 Children’s Book Award

Exciting news! Nicola Gale from Waterstones Southampton, has organised a shadow panel for our 2010 Children’s Book Award.   Nine Y5 children from from Bitterne C of E Junior School, Southampton are meeting with Nicola to discuss and argue about the books.  Will the children agree with our teachers’ panel? Meet Nicola and the children at our wine reception to announce the award winners. (NB our reception is at the University of Winchester 4.30 on Thursday July 8^th …look out for FREE invitations to members on-line in the next couple of weeks)