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Teaching Resources

These resources are written by teachers for teachers. They're based around Gill’s courses, so they’re great for giving you fresh ideas in challenging areas.

Visual Literacy

• Unit 1 Narrative for Year 1
• Unit 2 Narrative Traditional Stories for Year 2
• Barclaycard Advertisement for Year 2
  (To use this unit you will need to download the accompanying Windows Media File. Do this by right-clicking on the link and selecting "Save Target As...")
• Barclaycard Advertisement for Year 3
  (To use this unit you will need to download the accompanying Windows Media File. Do this by right-clicking on the link and selecting "Save Target As...")
• Silent Movie for Year 5

Spotlight on … children’s authors for Key Stage 2

• Year 4 Author Study: Anthony Browne
• Year 6 Author Study: Anthony Browne

Using Electronic Texts in Key Stage 2

• Evaluating electronic texts

If you’ve been inspired by one of Gill’s sessions, why not email your ideas to her? She’ll post them here so you can share them with other teachers.

Articles

Literacy

• Getting creative with literacy

Thematic Curriculum

• Waving, not Drowning: Taking the Plunge on Curriculum Change
• Research into the impact of a thematic curriculum

Electronic Literacy

• It's literacy – but not as we know it

Click on resource or article title to download it in Microsoft Word format. Some resources have accompanying files in Windows Media format. To view these files you will need Windows Media Player installed on your computer. If you do not have it, you can download it, free of charge, at the Microsoft website.