1st Edition
Literacy in Action: Football 24 Flexible Lessons for Ages 9-11
1. Writing’s all right 2. Writing Rocks Quiz Show 3. Character Profile 4. Q&A Conversations 5. Organising Research 6. Verb Diary 7. The Unexpected Football Match 8. Programmed for Success 9. Walter Tull – suitable for work promoting black/ethnic personalities 10. Fernando Fiddle’s injury 11. Speaking of Pronouns 12. Story time Planning 13. Story time Writing 14. Story time Editing & Publishing 15. Munich Plane Crash 16. FAQs and vocabulary 17. Connective Obituary 18. Football - good or bad? 19. Ixed Advert for Ladies Football 20. Wheelchair football in a sentence 21. Five Sense Poems 22. Playing with Words and Boots 23. Match Report 24.Commas, Clauses and Café Menus
Biography
Heather Butler has over twenty years of experience teaching in various UK primary schools and has been a literacy coordinator in a number of different settings. Since 2002 she has also worked as an education consultant specialising in literacy, storywriting and training and staff development work on boy's writing. She has seen very significant increase in demand for consultancy work and inset training related to boy's literacy.
She is also mentor for the National Association of Writers in Education to train writers wanting to work in schools and works as a tutor for Open College for the Arts (affiliated to Open University) for their children’s story writing and beginners writing courses.
