Jacqueline Harrett to present at Winchester Writer’s Conference
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 . Posted by admin
Jacqueline Harrett, author of ‘Exciting Writing’ is presenting at a UKLA organised event within the Winchester Writers’ Conference. Jacqueline will be running a double session for teachers called ‘From Telling Tales to Writing Words’ on Saturday June 28th. She is also offering one-to-one sessions to talk to teachers about their own writing with and for children. This is the first time that the Festival has offered a seminar especially for teachers, so is a very exciting prospect. Other highlights include, Colin Dexter OBE, internationally renowned authors, novelists, playwrights, poets, producers, literary agents, commissioning editors and industry specialists.
More details at http://www.writersconference.co.uk/ .
UKLA Response to the Primary Curriculum Review
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 . Posted by admin
The UKLA response to the Primary Curriculum Review is now available to download (PDF, 199k)
Primary Subjects hits England’s primary schools
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 . Posted by admin
UKLA has got together with the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) and the English Association (EA) to produce the pages on English for Primary Subjects, the new termly magazine that arrived on all primary school doormats on 18th April. As its name suggests, Primary Subjects covers the whole primary curriculum. Its focus is on practical classroom activities, soundly based in subject understanding, and all its material comes from subject associations.
As well as contributing a lively front-page article, UKLA has played the co-ordinating role for this first issue. Its theme is ‘every child matters’. The aim of the magazine is to help classroom teachers liven up their teaching and introduce them to what subject associations have to offer. The fourth page for each subject sets out information on each association and its activities.
Look out for your school’s copy in the staff-room and turn to the English pages! You can download a PDF version if this issue now.
Henrietta Dombey
UKLA Children’s Book Award Shortlist announced today
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 . Posted by admin
The United Kingdom Literacy Association today announced the shortlist for its 2008 Children’s Book Award. Two awards – one for a picture book and one for fiction – will be made.
The award is given to honour writers whose use of language has a powerful impact on the reader. It is unique amongst national children book awards in that the shortlist is decided by teachers. Teachers share books with children on a daily basis. This, and their professional expertise, enables them to recognize those books with the power to engage young readers. This year 66 books were submitted by publishers, and teachers from Liverpool and Croydon read and shared books, before voting to produce the shortlist.
The shortlist will now be considered by a small panel of UKLA teachers and independent consultants. The two prize winners of this year’s award will be announced on July 12th at UKLA’s 44th International conference, to be held at Liverpool Hope University, July 11th-13th.
UKLA Book Awards shortlist
| Publisher | Title |
|---|---|
Harper Collins | 1.The Cow that Laid an Egg - Andy Cutbill & Russell Ayto 2.The Way Back Home - Oliver Jeffers |
Little Tiger Press | A long way home - Elizabeth Baguley & Jane Chapman |
Andersen Press | Eliza and the Moonchild - Emma Chichester Clark |
Puffin | Stuck in the Mud - Jane Clarke & Garry Parsons |
Walker | Penguin - Polly Dunbar |
Scholastic | Here Lies Arthur - Philip Reeve. |
Frances Lincoln | Give me Shelter - Ed Tony Bradman |
Bloomsbury | Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror - Chris Priestley |
Walker | 1.Anna Hibiscus - Atinuke 2.My Dad’s a Birdman - David Almond |
Usborne | Tamburlaine’s Elephants - Geraldine McCaughrean |
Luath Press | The Bower Bird - Ann Kelly |
Day One Productions | The Story Spinner, told by Phil McDermott |
Teachers as Readers Research Project Update
Thursday, March 06, 2008 . Posted by admin
Given the narrow scope of primary teachers’ knowledge and use of children’s literature identified in Phase I, the core goal of Teachers as Readers: Building Communities of Readers Phase II is to improve teachers’ knowledge and experience of such literature in order to help them increase children’s motivation and enthusiasm for reading, especially those less successful in literacy. Read this to find out more about the aims and objectives of the project. We also include an update on the project
here.
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- Opportunities to apply for research grants
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- Be part of the future of literacy learning and teaching
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