I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s posts and found them interesting and informative. We started with my experiences of learning to read and how we’ve been helping Rosemary with her reading in The cat sat on the mat this morning. A bit later, we had a teacher’s tips on Helping your …
This is a Book Week guest post by Rachel McClary from rightfromthestart. Rachel is an early years consultant and has some great advice for parents of babies and pre-schoolers on what we can do to prepare them so they will take to reading happily and easily. When our children first …
This is a Book Week guest post by Linda Jones of Freelancewritingtips.com. Linda is currently writing a book about helping primary school children to love reading. Reading can help our children fly, without leaving their room, swim without getting wet and sample a giant peach without being told not to …
This is a Book Week guest post from Suzanne at Ghostwritermummy. Suzanne is a teacher and has some excellent tips on helping children learn to read. Children are never too young to enjoy the gift of reading. Whether it is listening to a story or reading it for themselves, books …
I don’t really remember learning to read. It seems to me as though I always knew how to read. I could read already when I started school and got annoyed about having to say the sounds of letters instead of the names while everyone else was learning. Apparently, though, my …
I hope you’ve been enjoying Book Week so far – I certainly have. If you haven’t seen all today’s posts, yet, here’s a round-up of what we’ve seen so far. The first two posts of the day shared tips for novel writing – mine was a lesson in how not …
This is a Book Week guest post by http://www.bod-for-tea.blogspot.com/ Back in November 2008 I was newly pregnant and still in ‘I will be a baby-whispering-earth-mother’ mode. I was scared and excited and blissfully unaware of the whirlwind that motherhood would unleash into my life. So, with time on my hands …
This is a Book Week guest post by Frances Evesham (SpeechContacts Human Communication Blog). 7 Things You Need To Know Once upon a time, to publish your book you had to: persuade a publisher to pull your submission off the slush pile of 1,000 other submissions; hope he read it; …
This is a Book Week guest post by Emma Kaufmann and Gillian Martin (Cocktails at Naptime). Once upon a time…two mums who really should have been doing housework wrote a book together….they called it Cocktails at Naptime and some nice Australian publishers called Finch Publishing laughed out loud when they …
This is a Book Week guest post by Emily Carlisle (More than Just a Mother). Do you want to write a book? Then write one. Ever since I finished my first novel I’ve met lots of people who say “oh I’d love to write a book – I just don’t …
