Literacy Lesson Plans

As well as running the Crowvus Book Blog, I'm a primary school teacher. Although I love my job, this means that I haven't posted on as many book reviews as I would like. A lot of my 'spare' time is taken up with reading 9 year old children's writing, not published works.

But I thought it would be a good idea to merge my two interests and include some lesson plans on this blog.

These lesson plans will include writing and reading activities, along with some class novel suggestions. I have also just started teaching grammar (the cover teacher taught it until this week!) so I might post some ideas for this as well.

I am a Primary 4 teacher so the lesson plans will be targeted to that age group, but they could be adapted to meet the relevant stage of the curriculum.

Class Novels

"First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts" Expressive Arts

"Children of Green Knowe" Technology

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