Since qualifying from Roehampton University, Katie has gained extensive experience teaching in primary schools in the South East. Katie has led English and Curriculum teams and held a lead practitioner role for English, as well as supporting teachers across Key Stages through working as a Specialist Leader of Education for a national academy trust. Katie finds it difficult to pass a bookshop without stepping foot inside.
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As the most book-ish of people here at the Literacy Tree, we’ve been particularly taken by the recent resurgence in the children’s non-fiction market. Gone are the days of the generic information text, left to languish on dusty bookcases labelled ‘animals’,…
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Last month we looked at the importance of vocabulary acquisition on the development of children’s comprehension skills. The main message here being that the more words children understand on the page, the more chance they have of understanding the text…
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